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THE CHRIST-LAW 

IN 
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM 



A Portrayal of the Scientific Law of Healing 

through a soul experience and expression 

of the Law of Life, Love, Truth, 

as taught by our Master, 

Jesus the Christ. 



PUBLISHED 1913, BY WM. M. KELLOGG 
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 



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Copyrighted 1913, by Wm. M. Kellogg 
All rights reserved 



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CONTENTS 

Preface. Pg. 

1 Mind. The supreme law of perfection 23 

2 Life. The action of Mind 35 

3 Love. The substance of Mind 48 

4 Truth. The perfection of Mind 60 

5 Obedience. The life of Love 72 

6 Holiness. The love of Love 98 

7 Harmony. The truth of Love 117 

8 Righteousness. The love of Truth... 139 

9 Principle. The truth of Truth 165 

10 Dominion. The life of Truth 189 

11 Intelligence. The truth of Life _ 214 

12 Being. The life of Life 235 

13 Wisdom The love of Life 253 



PREFACE 



In placing this subject of the healing Christ consciousness 
before the reader, it is to be considered as the supreme law of 
perfection coming from the Father-Mind or Spirit. By means 
of a diagram to be known as the "Star of Bethlehem" will be 
portrayed a clear and comprehensive explanation of the scien- 
tific principle of right thoughts, and it must be understood that 
these thoughts as states of consciousness are to be our states 
of spiritual being. This work is essentially a discussion in- 
tended to reveal the utter falsity of evil as a living power with 
action in its own name. Through logical reasoning in obedience 
to one spiritual law, and by reference to some of the axiomatic 
facts given by Jesus the Christ, it is to be hoped that through 
these means we may all come together on a common ground of 
understanding. An understanding in every way similar to that 
which we hold of the multiplication table, for the infallible and 
scientific law of good precludes all arguments as to its fact of 
being and Tightness as a law, even as this same multiplication 
table does. 

It will be our daily work to establish in mind this law of 
perfection and to eschew the impotent and imperfect mortal 
sense concepts about material conditions, for we must enter into 
spiritual being. 

The object of this book is to show how Christ's teaching as a 
scientific law of right living is spiritual in essence and cannot 
be reduced to mortality and defiled therein. Mortality must be 
put oif and spirituality put on through knowing the absolute 
scientific law of the Christ. 

Few people realize that they as well as the struggling mass 
of humanity seen upon our streets are active mentalities only, 
constantly living, acting and doing something, and if not guided 
into the lawful channel of perfect right and held therein because 



of the fact of knowing the law of good, just as we are held by 
knowing the multiplication table, then what is to keep them from 
going astray following the carnal sense-mind in the suggestion 
of good and evil through the deceiving senses? For these 
people will continue living, moving, and doing something either 
good or bad, right or wrong. 

Now there is a perfect law of righteousness which is com- 
pletely finished and can be understood, it is just as absolute and 
certain in its demonstration as the law of mathematics, and 
just as applicable to our daily life and its living. But hitherto 
it has not been orderly revealed in its Christ-meaning of per- 
fection as given in the diagram of the Star of Bethlehem. For 
this reason people generally have not been able to understand 
and use it through perception of its scientific perfection. 

This perfect law is not contaminated with or in any way 
influenced by man-made laws; for nothing can be added to it or 
taken from its already perfect being. It alone is sufficient to 
teach and guide us in all right and true living, and apart from 
it there is no right living. 

Through it would all the world come together into perfect 
harmony of being. Under the influence of this perfect law of 
the righteous Christ would all fighting and dominating mortal 
minds be laid aside, and the impotent mortal self be lost in 
the wonderful radiance and presence of the law of the Christ's 
perfection. 

The fundamental analysis and classification of ideas, as given 
in the diagram to be known as the Star of Bethlehem, are to 
represent the principle or law of perfect idea entities as that 
Mind of the Christ, for Mind and Christ are one, in which evil 
is not considered neither has representation. The ideas, as given 
in the Star, are intended as a beginning, with the hope that study 
on the part of others may result in more perfect spiritual realiza- 
tions, and clearer soul experiences of this constructive law of 
good, thereby enlarging and eventually perfecting the system. 

To discern and arrange in right relation these perfect ideas, 
even to fill out the third and fourth circles, will be found to 
require a considerable ability in real spiritual understanding; 
and is seemingly difficult to attain to perfection with its inherent 
dominion. But it can be attained here and now in a practical 






way sufficient to meet all our needs, and surely will correct 
our imperfect thoughts and all of their fearful manifestations. 
Moreover, we must not forget that we are commanded by the 
Lord, even as Abram was long ago, as recorded in Gen. 17:1, 
to walk before the Lord in his law and be perfect. 

In Matt. 5 :48, Our Master repeated this command, for he 
said, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is 
in heaven is perfect." 

If it had not been possible for us to live in perfection then 
would we not have been so commanded, but how is it possible 
for us to live perfectly when we do not know that law which 
makes perfect? That is the Christ-meaning of all things as a 
scientific law of perfection; and more, when we are not skilled 
in its use and application, even as we are in other sciences 
such as logic, music or mathematics? 

The progressive people of today are beginning to look for a 
law of perfection, shorn of all mortal contamination as of opin- 
ions, doubts, long standing customs, social supremacy, material 
wealth's seeming power, ecclesiastical domination, etc. They 
want a principle of perfect being apart from mortals which 
they can absolutely trust, and scientifically learn to know in 
perfection with all hocus-pocus eliminated, and be able to mani- 
fest it because they know it, and know how and why they 
know it. 

Again they demand an understandable science of perfect being, 
as for instance the perfect law of righteousness, which gives 
forth everywhere the absolute freedom of spiritual thought, shorn 
of all mystery and bondage to material laws, which pretend to 
give a license of special privilege to some people for money, 
thinking thereby to limit God's law, or even to guide it in its 
perfect action. 

The law, as given in the Star of Bethlehem, portrays the per- 
fect principle of Mind's action, substance and perfection, as the 
one Christ-meaning of life, love, truth, which is the one mean- 
ing of all created things. 

This law of the perfect Christ overcomes all other laws tak- 
ing their place, because of the satisfying and final testimony of 
perfection given by Spirit to our spirit, which testimony is not 
contaminated with impotent mortality. 



SOURCE OF THE STAR'S DIAGRAM 

Before we take up the law of the Star of Bethlehem, it will be 
well to reveal the source of this diagram. To do this a descrip- 
tion of the golden candlestick, with an illustration, is given, so 
that everyone may judge for themselves as to its authority and 
authenticity. 

Moses commanded that there should be built a golden candle- 
stick, which should be placed within the tabernacle of the Lord; 
and lighted, that it might give light over against it. A glance 
at the illustration will show that the light from the lamp of each 
branch is represented by a" triangle of either life, love, or truth ; 
each one of which must contain all three, for they are insepar- 
able, and therefore each point of the triangle must represent 
life, love, truth. Now in the central branch we find all three 
triangles represented, each with a point of life, love, truth, 
making nine points; and this is where we get the Star of Beth- 
lehem. 

The light of its meaning is given in the infinite progression 
of its ideas in association, which are substituted for the life- 
love-truth-meaning. These perfect ideas, as the word of God, 
are our states of spiritual being in Mind, and constitute the 
governing power of the Christ. 

In John 8:31,32 Jesus said, "If ye continue in my word then 
are ye my disciples indeed: and ye shall know the truth, and 
the truth shall make you free." 

From this it appears that we must continue in his word and 
walk in the knowledge of the Lord's law of perfection, for therein 
are we to be made perfect; made free from imperfections which 
we have acquired through following after false-sense suggestions. 

Our freedom is to be gained through soul experiences of spir- 
itual being only, as represented in the perfect law of the Christ. 

It is with this thought of perfection foremost in mind that the 
Star and its law of the one Christ-meaning of life-action, love- 
substance, truth-perfection is presented to you; with the hope 
that you will find in the following pages a spark of spiritual 
light which is sufficiently clear and strong enough to light your 
candle; and by means of this light find the strait and narrow 
path of absolute law, which alone leads into the kingdom of 
heaven. 



As a part of this preface is given the spiritual interpretation 
of the golden candlestick, which is the source of the diagram 
of the Star of Bethlehem. You are referred to the diagram in 
the front of the book. 

THE GOLDEN CANDLESTICK 

A Revelation of Its Spiritual Meaning Through the Central Star 

This golden ornament was a spiritual symbol, placed by Moses 
in the tabernacle of the Lord, about the year 1400 B. C. 

It is again referred to about 100 A. D. in the account of St. 
John's vision of the Christ, given in the first three chapters of 
Revelation. 

Again in 1900 A. D. attention is called to it through the rev- 
elation of the perfect Christ-law, as given in the Star of Bethle- 
hem, for this law of the life-love-truth-meaning illumines the 
candlestick with light. 

In Exodus 25:31-38 we read a description of the golden can- 
dlestick, which Moses commanded to be made and placed in the 
holy tabernacle of the Lord. "And they shall light the lamps 
thereof, that they may give light over against it." 

The candlestick was a symbol of God's holy law of righteous- 
ness, and made to illustrate the relation and association of all 
Christ ideas, as applied to man spiritual, in order to correct the 
imperfect and therefore deceiving-sense testimony of man mortal. 

This candlestick was more than an ornament, for it was a 
symbol of the law of life, love, truth, to all generations. 

This object of gold, as a thing of material appearance, could 
not of itself reveal its spiritual meaning, for matter cannot speak, 
think, or express anything. Spirit alone has this ability. It 
is the work of Spirit, which has revealed the law of the Star to 
the world, that it might have a substantial light to guide it 
through the paths of darkness. 

In verse 31 we read that this candlestick was to consist of a 
shaft having branches, bowls, knops and flowers; all to be made 
of pure gold as a symbol of one substantial love. 

In verse 32 a careful description of this symbol is begun, and 



in that which follows an endeavor will be made to associate 
with this description the ideas of the Star of Bethlehem, in order 
to give to the candlestick a spiritual meaning of law as that of 
the Christ righteousness. 

The base of the candlestick stands as a representative symbol 
or foundation of the one source of all true meaning within the 
realm of the Father-Mind or Spirit; from which comes the shaft 
as the Christ, who is to be the revealing law of life-love-truth- 
meaning to all people and give them an understanding of God 
therein. 

This shaft as the substance of the Christ-law includes three 
knops as seats of power to give forth life-action, love-substance, 
truth-perfection; and from them are to come every true idea of 
spiritual light. 

We read that six branches shall come out of the sides of it, 
three branches out of the one side and three branches out of the 
other side. 

These branches correspond to the first and last points of the 
Star in each realm of life, love, truth; but the central points 
all belong to the shaft proper and are placed in the seventh 
branch. 

Therefore, on the one side of the shaft, coming out from the 
knop of love, extends the branch of obedience as the beginning 
of all understanding, and corresponds to the first point of the 
Star in the realm of love. On the other side, coming out from 
the same knop, extends the branch of harmony, and corresponds 
to the third point of the Star in the realm of love. Next, on the 
one side of the shaft coming out from the knop of truth, extends 
the branch of righteousness, which corresponds to the first point 
of the Star in the realm of truth. On the other side of the shaft, 
coming out from the same knop, extends the branch of dominion, 
which corresponds to the last point of the Star in the realm of 
truth. Next, on one side of the shaft coming out from the knop 
of life, extends the branch of intelligence, which corresponds 
to the first point of the Star in the realm of life. On the other 
side, coming out from the same knop, extends the branch of 
wisdom, which corresponds to the last point of the Star in the 
realm of life. Herein we have the six branches of the candle- 
stick and the light of their meaning. Next goes forth the con- 



tinuation of the shaft as the seventh branch; which is to be the 
center of the law itself. This branch is to represent three points 
of the Star — the point of the life of life in the center of the 
realm of life. The point of the truth of truth in the center of 
the realm of truth. The point of the love of love in the center 
of the realm of love. These points represent Being, Principle, 
Holiness. 

The points of the Star, as well as the branches of the candle- 
stick, are to be understood as lights of understanding coming 
from Mind, and as giving one meaning of life-action, love-sub- 
stance, truth-perfection. 

In verse 33 we read where each branch is supplied with three 
bowls — a knop, and a flower apiece — all of which correspond 
perfectly with the law as given in the Christ-meaning of life, 
love, truth. For the bowls holding the oil represent the source 
of light, from which comes understanding, and being three, they 
correspond to the three counterparts of each branch idea. For 
instance, the bowls, which represent the counterparts of the 
branch of obedience, are in the Star shown to be loyalty, service, 
loveliness; loyalty as the truth of obedience, service as the life of 
obedience, and loveliness as the love of obedience. In this way 
is one true meaning given to each branch of the candlestick, 
through the ideas in association with each point of the Star. 

The knop is symbolical of the seed-bearing power, represent- 
ing the life which is in itself ; the knop is a seat of energy having 
an ever-living power of life presence within it, bringing forth in 
likeness of itself, thereby continuing its particular phase of Mind- 
expression. 

Above the knops come the bowls, which are symbolical of the 
substance of the Christ-mind, the source of all light as perfected 
ideas in the law. 

The flowers are the ornament of realized good as the love 
therein. Above the bowls come the flame of light as the under- 
standing of the one Christ-meaning of life, love, truth, which 
alone, because of its final testimony as all, makes us to know 
spiritual presence. 

In verse 34 we read that in the branch of the shaft proper, 
that is, in the seventh branch, are four bowls, they are repre- 



sCntative of Love as Holiness, Truth as Principle, and Life as 
Being; with Jesus as the perfect manifestation of them all. 

The almond-shaped bowls are representative of the triangular 
divisions in the points of the Star, and are to contain the 
three ideas as the counterparts of the branch idea. 

In verse 35 we read where there is a knop under each set of 
branches, which is as a seat of power to send out these branches. 
The first one represents the action and perfection of love; the 
second one represents the substance and action of truth; the 
third one represents the perfection and substance of life. 

In verse 36 we read that it shall all be made of one substance, 
as of gold, which is symbolical of love as the very base of the 
Christ-law. 

In verse 37 we read where seven lamps are made and com- 
manded to be lighted, that is they must give forth an under- 
standing as a meaning of one law of perfect righteousness; in a 
living expression of which we must abide, that we may be healed 
of all erroneous sense-imaginations. 

Having associated together the Candlestick and the Star of 
Bethlehem, wherein each gives to the other a meaning, then 
let us turn to the first three chapters of Revelation, where this 
subject is continued. 

Revelation, First Chapter. 

In verse 11 of chapter 1, John is commanded to send to the 
seven churches in Asia the revelation given to him in a vision 
of the Christ. These seven churches represent the seven states 
of spiritual being as given in the candlestick, and also in the 
Star of Bethlehem, and when they are known give a complete 
concept of the one perfect church of Christ. 

It is without doubt to the people of these churches, who are 
striving to manifest the different states of spiritual being, that 
this message is sent; at least the rest of the chapter and the 
lesson of the whole vision points that way. 

In verse 12 John, being turned from observing sense testimony, 
saw the illumination of spiritual understanding, as the infinite 
presence of the seven separate candlesticks, which were seven 
states of individual spiritual being. He realized that it was the 



power of the Christ which gave them presence and that He was 
in and among them all. 

In verse 13 John beheld the principle of the law of life,, love, 
truth, as the perfection of good in the midst of the candlestick, 
which was clothed with the garment of illumined understanding, 
and was girt about the heart with a golden girdle of love. 

In verse 14 the head, that is the perfect intent of the law, 
was white with purity, being perfectly holy and good; and his 
eyes were aflame with the fire of truth, which was the under- 
standing of the law of good. 

In verse 1 5 his feet, that is the foundation of the law, was 
made firm and everlasting through the power of truth-perfection; 
and his voice was as the sea of perfect ideas in infinite expression 
of life, love, truth, through Spirit's testimony to our spirit. 

In verse 16 the Christ-vision held within its illumination the 
seven stars of the candlestick, which were the lights of spiritual 
meaning given forth, the understanding of truth's perfection as a 
sharp sword to prevail against all error. 

In verse 17 St. John realized his mortal impotence and beheld 
mortality in comparison to perfection as nothingness. But our 
Saviour said to fear not, for I am thy first understanding in obe- 
dience as the living action of love, and also thy ultimate and 
final understanding of love's substance in wisdom. 

In verse 18 we all know that the Christ-law is the key which 
unlocks the bondage of death and hell, freeing us from its 
fearful mortal concepts of fury and confusion; and is the 
understanding which prevails over all evil, loosening our bonds 
of suffering because of sin, for it is to utterly destroy the false 
testimony of the carnal sense-mind. 

In verse 20 the vision tells St. John that the seven stars are 
the angels (the soul entities) of the seven churches; these stars 
are the spiritual light and power of understanding in the seven 
candlesticks, and that the seven candlesticks are the substance 
of the churches as the Christ-law or the churches themselves. 
And in the next two chapters is given Christ's guiding words 
of advice and warning to the members of these churches. 

Each branch of the candlestick represents an individual church 
as a state of spiritual being, which is a phase of Mind in the 
one law; we are all to attain each individual state of understand- 



ing within Mind's being, in order to gain membership in the 
perfect church; which is apart from all political organizations 
as a church. , 

The candlestick gives the seven stages of the one perfect church 
as the complete law of the Christ-mind; and we must pass 
through and attain the soul experience of each one of the 
branches before we are qualified to realize the last and final 
stage of the church of Laodicea and have a seat with our Saviour 
in his throne. 

THE CHURCH OF THE LIFE OF LOVE. REV. 3:1. 

The Spirit of Obedience as the Angel of the Church of Sardis. 

Verse 1. "I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou 
livest (obedience) and art dead." Not knowing that obedience 
is the life of love. In verse 5, "Shall be clothed in white rai- 
ment (holiness)." These refer to the realm of love. 

Verse 2. Be watchful and strengthen your knowing of the 
law, for I have not found thy works (as expressions of love in 
obedience) perfect before God. 

Verse 3. We are told that there is no place of safety except 
to live in obedience, actual loveliness; also that no excuse for 
disobedience will be admissable, for we are commanded to walk 
in the law. 

Verse 4. There are some who are obedient in loveliness, not 
having defiled their garments in hate for any cause, and they 
shall walk with the Christ in consciousness of the law's good, 
and therein be made perfect because they are worthy and de- 
serving of holiness. 

Verse 5. Him that overcomes disobedience, as fear or hate, 
and manifests obedience as loveliness, I will confess this indi- 
viduality before my Father and his angels, and he shall be clothed 
in holiness and harmony as the perfect state of love. 



THE CHURCH OF THE TRUTH OF LOVE. REV. 3:7. 

The Spirit of Harmony as the Angel of the Church of 

Philadelphia. 

Verse 7. "These things saith he that is holy." "He that hath 
the key of David" (perfect love as harmony). These refer to the 
realm of love. 

Verse 8. "Behold I place before thee an open door (the law 
of love), and no man can overcome it." For thou hast but little 
strength, it being hidden by mortal concepts of weakness; still 
through strength thou hast kept my law and not denied my name 
as the life-love-truth-meaning of good. 

Verse 9. Behold, I will make the discordant mortal con- 
sciousness to come and worship before thee in the law, that they 
may learn to know the truth of love as the harmony of spiritual 
presence. 

Verse 10. Having the spiritual consciousness of harmony 
firmly fixed in the soul then will evil be cast out and we be pro- 
tected therein. 

Verse 11. We are commanded to hold fast to this expression 
of harmony, so that no mental suggestion in mortality shall take 
this crown of life from us and leave us in darkness. 

Verse 12. Him that overcomes and gains this consciousness 
of the truth of love will I make a pillar in the temple of my 
God. He shall go no more out, for once knowing the truth of 
the law, then he can never know its opposite, and he shall have 
written in his soul a spiritual understanding of the Christ 
and power to express him. 

THE CHURCH OF THE LOVE OF TRUTH. REV. 2:12. 

The Spirit of Righteousness as the Angel of the Church 

of Pergamos. 

Verse 12. "He that hath the sharp sword with two edges." 
"With the sword of my mouth." These refer to the realm of 
truth. 

Verse 13. The people of this church are not following the 
law in perfection, for they dwell in the seat of Satan, that is in 
the carnal-sense of things. But they are commanded to hold fast 



to the Christ-meaning of life-love-truth, and never to deny it, 
even in the fury of things of this world. 

Verse 14. But I have a few things against thee, the acknowl- 
edgement of mortality and spirituality, as both being real and 
true, also idolatry, adultery, dualism, hypocrisy. These being 
unlawful as thoughts they must not be expressed. 

Verse 16. Repent, that is turn from the evil and know the 
good, for if we do not,, we shall experience the power of the law 
against us to destroy Our error, and we shall suffer in the fury 
of its prevailing. 

Verse 17. To him who obeys this head of the law of right- 
eousness will I give to eat of the hidden manna, that is the 
experience of the love of truth, and he shall have a pure white 
stone given unto him (Christ), with the new name of the life- 
love-truth-meaning written therein; which no man can under- 
stand save him who has experienced it. 

THE CHURCH OF THE LIFE OF TRUTH. REV 2:18. 

The Spirit of Dominion as the Angel of the Church 

of Thyatira. 

Verse 18. "Who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire." 
"And his feet are like fine brass." These refer to the realm 
of truth. 

Verse 19. I know thy patience and thy works, and the last 
to be more than the first, for the healing power of dominion as 
proof of knowing is more than a blind faith of sense-belief in a 
theory of the law. For the Christ demands fruit from his fol- 
lowers as actual facts of good and not alone the sense im- 
pressions of that which seems to be good. The Christ has 
made it possible for us to produce these fruits through his law. 

Verses 20 to 24. After revealing the death which lurks in 
adultery, also in all opposition to the law, such as the denial of 
the healing power of truth, he says that as we sow so shall we 
reap; that is in just the way which we build our house of con- 
science either of good or evil, so shall we be held responsible 
and receive our reward accordingly. 

Verse 24. On as many as have not this doctrine of demon- 
strable knowledge of the law, but who are good in the intent of 



their hearts, I will put no other burden than that they hold 
fast to that which they have of good. 

Verse 26. Him that knows dominion as the life of truth, 
and has gained its healing power, I will make him a ruler over 
many nations. 

Verse 27. He shall rule with this rod of iron and break in 
shivers the testimony of the carnal sense-mind as a false con- 
sciousness of evil in the appearance of material conditions ; that 
is, all mortal imaginations shall be destroyed therewith. 

Verse 28. He will be given the morning star (the power of 
dominion in knowing the Christ-presence). In Rev. 22:16 we 
read of Jesus as the morning star. 

THE CHURCH OF THE TRUTH OF LIFE. REV. 2:1. 

The Spirit of Intelligence as the Angel of the Church 

of Ephesus. 

Verse 1. "Who walketh in the midst of the seven golden 
candlesticks." Verse 7. "Will I give to eat of the tree of life, 
which is in the midst of the paradise of God." These refer to 
the realm of light or life. 

Verse 2. And how thou canst not bear them which express 
the evil of ignorant sense in opposition to spiritual intelligence; 
for thou hast tried them by means of the law who say they are 
christian and are not, and hast found them liars ; because those 
who really know the law can manifest it and do the works of 
intelligence, instead of mortal imagination. 

Verse 4. Because thou hast left thy first love, the love and 
radiant innocence of a little child, and gone over to the testimony 
of the carnal sense-mind of evil; to live in the material conditions 
and experiences of the things of the .world, therefore thou art 
not perfect. 

Verse 5. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen 
and repent, and do the first works of innocent love, for if not, 
the light of spiritual understanding will be taken away from you, 
and you will be left in the darkness of confusion and fury of 
mortality. 

Verse 7. He that overcomes will I give to eat of the under- 
standing of the tree of life, portrayed in the law of righteousness 
and shown in the candlestick and Star of Bethlehem. 



THE CHURCH OF THE LOVE OF LIFE. REV. 2:8. 

The Spirit of Wisdom as the Angel of the Church 

of Smyrna. 

Verse 8. ''Which was dead and is alive." Verse 10. "I will 
give a crown of life." These refer to the realm of life. 

Verse 9- But thou art rich in wisdom; not so them which 
say that they are children of Israel and are not, because they 
live in the sensations of materiality and are therefore of the 
synagogue of Satan, dwelling in the animal sense-mind which 
blasphemes against the law of Christ. 

Verse 10. Fear none of the things which this animal sense- 
mind shall do unto you, for this same carnal-sense shall cast you 
into prison, where you will suffer until you learn to obey the 
heads of the law, as given in the Star and Candlestick; wherein 
you will learn how to overcome all evil; and being faithful unto 
the end will gain a crown of life. 

Verse 11. He that overcomes the bondage of mortal imag- 
ination shall not be hurt of the second death, or that which we 
commonly know as death. For having overcome imperfect con- 
cepts in this world we shall continue in the wisdom gained thereby 
after giving up mortality. 

Now comes the seventh and last church, as the final step in 
gaining power and salvation with the Christ. This church ex- 
presses the centers of the realms of Life as Being, Love as Holi- 
ness, and Truth as Principle. 

THE CHURCH OF LIFE, LOVE, TRUTH. REV. 3:14. 

The Spirit of Love-Truth-Life as the Angel of the 
Church of Laodicea. 

Verse 14. "These things saith the Amen." "The beginning 
and the end." (The first understanding in obedience and the 
end in wisdom). These refer to the combined expression of 
the whole law of life, love, truth. 

Verse 15. The expression of the people in this last church 
of the Christ perfection is neither hot nor cold, being indifferent 
and self-satisfied. The followers of this church do not appreci- 
ate the necessity of knowing the perfect law of life, love, truth. 
Therefore, because the people of today do not make an effort 



to understand the perfect law for themselves, and are not anxious 
to gain the knowledge of the science of life, then shall the door 
of spiritual understanding be shut to them. 

Verse 17. The self-confidence and sufficiency of the church 
today in worldly aggrandizement reveals its true character, to 
which it is itself darkened and made blind. It does not know 
that it is wretched and miserable, and poor, and blind, and 
naked, of real spirituality in expression of the Christ-law. And 
that its members are void of understanding the perfect health 
and peace which proceeds from knowing this law. Because it 
lifts itself up in its own pride, worshiping in both sense and 
soul expressions of evil and good, then it shall surely die, reap 
nothingness. 

Verse 18. The people of this church are cautioned by the 
vision to buy of the Christ-law; gold as love tried in the fire of 
truth, which is to reveal the perfection of the law. Also to buy 
white raiment that they may be clothed in love, that their naked- 
ness of hateful mortality may not appear. And last to anoint 
their eyes with eye salve, that is their understanding with the 
spirit of the Christ-law; that they may know the spiritual life 
in Mind in preference to death as the seeming life in the flesh. 

Here we see that all three parts of the law of the Christ- 
meaning of life-action, love-substance, truth-perfection are re- 
quired as a soul expression before we are eligible and worthy to 
have a seat with the Christ in his throne. 

Verse 20. Behold I stand at the door and knock: I, the law 
of the Christ in its life-love-truth-meaning, as portrayed by 
Moses in the candlestick, and again by St. John in his vision, 
and now through the Star of Bethlehem. All of which set forth 
the one Christ-law as that of spiritual righteousness in perfection. 

Verse 21. To him that overcomes sense impressions through 
not giving to them his allegiance, and then learns the true spir- 
itual law, will I grant to sit with me in my throne, that is within 
the true Church of spiritual expression of the absolute law of 
perfection. 

Before the reader will be able to grasp this law of the Christ 
and use it with dominion there are three things which it will be 
necessary for him to consider well, them overcome, for we can- 
not serve two laws and abide within either one. 



First, we must gain the consent of ourselves to desire and 
serve the good; we must agree with ourselves that we do not 
want the evil, for to follow perfection is the one way to success. 

Second, as the demands of a law of perfection are tremen- 
dous and tolerate no compromise with us, we shall find the strain 
against mortal self to be almost unbearable, and it will stir our 
mortal wrath from its very depths, unless we have gained the 
consent of mortal-self to step aside and let the law come in and 
purify us in its own way. This we must do. 

Third. We must arise above all mortal or. man-made laws, 
as the "Thou shalt," and "Thou shalt not" commands, which 
come from a material source and are sure to offend because they 
oppose Christ's law of love. Unless we rid ourselves of this 
source of coercion and fear, through ceasing to give it our 
allegiance we cannot understand the following Christ-law of 
perfection and gain its dominion. 

The perfect Christ-law of righteousness is complete and suf- 
ficient for every need, and already has prevailed over the world 
laws ; we are all glad and willing to serve Christ ; but let not 
mortals interfere in this service with any "Thou shalt," or "Thou 
shalt not," coercion. 

The Star of Bethlehem is a symbol diagram made to repre- 
sent the Christ-law. Its chief value is to aid us in holding our 
thought-expressions in order and regularity, but when we have 
gained a soul-expression of the law we need no longer the chart 
and it can be laid aside. 

Until that time comes in the experience of each individual 
conscience, the universal, impersonal and undenominational char- 
acter of this diagram, in its revelation of the life-love-truth-mean- 
ing of the Christ-law, should be acceptable to anyone without 
offense; and surely will be to those who have overcome self, 
limitation and mortal coercion. 

WM. M. KELLOGG. 



CHAPTER I. 

MIND 

The Father-Mind; as Soul; God; Spirit. 

Mind is the supreme law of perfection as constructive good. 
It is self-expressed in the thinking Soul as Life, or all action; 
in substantial Good as Love, or all substance ; and in the power 
of Spirit as Truth, or all perfection. 

The world today is fast breaking away from the domination 
and bondage of material sense-testimony, which has been taught 
and preached to it from the beginning. The revolt is because 
of the unsatisfactory results of unlawful effort to express a state 
of imperfection and a state of perfection also, from the one source 
of a living and perfect God as Mind. 

The testimony of good and evil, coming from whatsoever source 
it may, results in a dual consciousness of utter confusion, from 
which everyone would escape. It is the object of this book to 
point out a definite and positive way to escape. 

We were commanded to walk, that is to live in the law of 
Mind's perfection, and therein to discover our own perfection 
in its image and likeness of intelligence, eschewing all mortal 
imaginations. But because of having a free volition as the active 
will of life, we are tempted through ignorance or mal-suggestion 
to direct our thoughts into an unlawful channel of imperfection, 
that is into concepts of destructive things, instead of into con- 
cepts of constructive things, wherein we experience sin and suffer. 

This attempt to use our God-given gift of thought or life-action 
in an unlawful channel, with the intent to express evil, is our 
sin and disobedience to the command, "Walk before me and be 
thou perfect." 

For this disobedience we suffer in fear because mortal imag- 
inations of evil are unlawful, and as an effort to express the 



24 The Christ-Law 

absence of good we lose our connection with God and experience 
fear. 

This attempt to guide our God-given gift, our sacred trust of 
thought-action into an unlawful channel, believing that we can 
derive good fruit from an evil intent (and because of this belief 
strive to make an unlawful thing to become lawful, which means 
to do evil deeds that good may come from it) is that which 
constitutes the testimony of the carnal-mind. Its seeming action 
is our own misguided life-action, given to express evil thoughts 
because we are enticed by the deceiving sense; which constantly 
suggests to us that we lend to it of our God-given gift of life- 
action in thought, that it may have seeming action in its intent 
of destruction, and thereby destroy, that is hide from us, our 
own rightful life-action of mind. 

But we must not forget that the supreme law of perfection 
does not act upon that which it did not make, such as impotent 
mortal imaginations. Moreover, we find that we cannot think, 
that is give a life-love-truth-meaning to any evil thing, as hate, 
envy, ignorance, etc., even if we should will to do so, because 
these evil things cannot be known as constructive good. Their 
whole intent is nothingness, and cannot therefore be any part of 
one constructive Mind. 

We will experiment upon the experience of unlawful sensa- 
tions, and endure their reward of suffering, until we learn to 
follow the law of Christ's perfection, for therein lies our right- 
ful dominion over all evil. Therein we will behold hate and 
ignorance as the absence of intelligence, and to us it is absent 
intelligence because we did not use our gift of thought-action 
to express it. 

When we awake to our dominion of Mind, then will we arise 
and ask every evil thing this question, "What is the life-love- 
truth-meaning in you?" This will reveal its nothingness to us 
and will recall us to the presence of Christ, wherein we will 
lose our fear of the evil appearance. In this way shall we 
learn to look with the intent to see the Christ meaning only 
in things, and God's creations will become good; for we have 
learned to 'look for the good instead of the evil appearance. 



Mind 25 

People are turning more and more to the law of the Christ 
in an effort to live within its purity and perfection, that they 
may abide within the secret place of the living soul, even within 
conscience. For herein alone do we receive from the Holy 
Ghost the testimony *of truth as a law of perfection, which was, 
and is, and ever will be our one and only source of knowing 
the Christ-law. 

People are beginning to realize that their own selfhood is a 
living, thinking, conscience; an active soul-entity entirely spir- 
itual, and in close and constant unity with the one ruling Mind, 
even our divine Father through his Christ. Our lives are won- 
derfully and beautifully attuned to perfect harmony with this 
supreme law of perfection as one constructive good and with 
this alone. 

Mortals can neither give nor receive a final testimony from 
each other, for this power of spiritual communication belongs to 
the Holy Ghost alone; and every allegiance to any mortal for 
any purpose whatsoever surely will vitiate our pure concept 
of one service to Christ. When we reach this point of true 
unadulterated service to the Christ perfection, as a supreme law 
of life, love, truth wherein material conditions and laws do not 
appear, we will cease to be afraid and come into our own right- 
ful inheritance of spiritual understanding. It is necessary that 
we find freedom from mortals and their repressive, coercive laws, 
before we can have a clear concept of Christ and his wonderful 
love. 

Now, just what is Mind? Mind is life-action, love-substance, 
truth-perfection. And the law of Mind is herein revealed through 
this fact, that when we separate Mind from life-action, love- 
substance, truth-perfection, as the law of its Christ meaning, 
then we have eliminated our one and only way of understand- 
ing what Mind means. If this law or fact is true in regard 
to Mind, that is that life-action, love-substance, truth-perfection 
are required to give Mind a meaning, then it must be true in 
every integral part of Mind, and herein is the way of the law 
established and pure and undefiled language expressed. This 
pure language of the Christ-Mind is developed and expanded 



26 The Christ-Law 

through the requirement of the law, which is that for every 
idea of Mind there shall be given three other ideas, each one 
of which is to represent either a life-action, love-substance, or 
truth-perfection meaning of this particular idea. From this 
it can be seen that every idea has its rightful place in the table 
of Mind ideas, in just the same way that 2 times 2 equals 4, 
has its rightful place in the multiplication table. This develop- 
ment of Mind ideas goes on into infinite expression and spir- 
itual experience of that which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, 
neither hath it entered into the conscience of men as yet, but 
is to come to all those who love good. 

Jesus speaking as the Christ said in John 10:30, "I and the 
Father are one." Again in John 14:6, "I am the way, the 
truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me." 

From this we are to learn that the counterparts of Mind are 
Life, Love, Truth; and this is given in the Star of Bethlehem 
as the first revelation of Mind, the first offspring from Mind 
in its revelation unto men. No one shall be able to understand 
the perfect meaning of Mind or its infinite ideas, except through 
the life-action, love-substance, truth-perfection-meaning. Herein 
is the law of Mind's development revealed, for every perfect 
idea must have this one triune meaning in its perfection. 

This establishes the law and the way of the law to be soul 
experiences of spiritual being only; therefore all mortal sensa- 
tions and carnal imaginations of material conditions cannot be 
considered as a part of Mind. 

That all of God's word, as Mind and its infinite ideas, are 
already established as an indestructible law within our heart's 
conscience is undeniable; and that it has nothing to do with the 
great mass of mortal imaginations follows as a necessary result 
of the allness of Mind. 

Mind is a supreme law of one perfect state of being self- 
evident and final in its testimony to its offspring or children, 
who alone can understand and realize its messages. 

In Gen. 2:17 we read: "But of the tree of the knowledge of 
good and evil thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou 
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." This means that to give 



Mind 27 

our allegiance to the testimony of both sense and soul is to 
abide in confusion and to suffer in the fury of death because 
of opposing laws. 

To exercise our life-action or mind upon unlawful appear- 
ances of evil is to produce a false sense of nothingness, known 
as mortal imagination or death; but when guided into lawful 
channels of the perfect law of Christ ideas then we live in 
righteous states of perfect being and are made perfect therein. 

To understand Mind as a perfect law or principle of ideas 
we have but to look over our experience in applying principle 
to mathematics, music, and other subj ects ; wherein we get a 
glimpse of the dominion of principle as Mind-action-substance- 
perfection. 

When we realize that this same law can be applied to thoughts, 
as well as to numbers, sounds, etc., then are we beginning to 
look at the subject in the right light and on the road to master 
the fact of right living. 

We already realize that the base or foundation of the prin- 
ciple of music is harmony, as a perfect love thought; and with- 
out harmony there can be no music as a song of the soul. We 
also know that we must use the correct symbols only, and in 
accordance with the law or principle of music; otherwise there 
is no music but a discordant noise as a mortal sensation having 
no lawful meaning of harmony. 

The principle of numbers is already familiar to the reader, 
and he knows that the essential part of all operations is included 
in the act of addition and subtraction; this is the basis of 
all work, and no problems can be solved without its use. We 
also know that it is very necessary to use the correct symbols 
and follow the law or rule absolutely, for if we do not there 
is nothing done, that is no truth manifested. 

But how about principle as applied to spiritual thoughts as 
the things of Mind, thought-entities as states of spiritual con- 
sciousness? Has this subject a base or foundation also? Yes, 
indeed. It is life-action, love-substance, truth-perfection. And 
by means of these basic states of being every true problem in 
life can be solved correctly, but, as it is in music and mathe- 



28 The Christ-Law 

matics, we are obliged to use the symbols which are peculiar 
to this special subject and according to the law's absoluteness. 

The symbols of this principle of thoughts are every perfect 
and right idea in Mind, and without these right ideas, and their 
correct use, according to the law of the one Christ meaning of 
life-action, love-substance, truth-perfection, nothing can be un- 
derstood about Mind or the infinite creations of Mind. 

There is one very decided difference in the application of 
principle to these three subjects, it is this, that a wicked and 
denied consciousness can become expert materially in the mani- 
festation of both music and mathematics and still retain its 
uncleanness. But no unclean and denied person can pass over 
this principle of the Christ-law of constructive good and retain 
his uncleanness, and none ever will, for the very power of 
healing in the law will eradicate all evil and uncleanness. It is 
not a law of this world's imperfection, but of the world of 
perfection. 

Now, is this law of the Christ-Mind easy to attain? Yes, 
it is easy. But not in a material way, for all material con- 
cepts are but confusion and the fury of death, and none of 
them can be understood. The way of the heart's expression 
of life-action, love-substance, truth-perfection is easy because 
it is right and much desired, and what is easier' or more beauti- 
ful than to love constructive good? Do not all people love 
good, even if they have a false concept of just what good is, it 
is the good that they are looking for, and that which they 
love, for good is love. 

When we lay aside the imperfect concepts and seek after the 
perfect only, then shall we get a right understanding of good. 

We often hear of "on the way there ideas," which is mislead- 
ing to many because every perfect idea is an on the way there 
idea, and an imperfect idea will never lead you there. Good 
and right alone have being, and their absolute perfection alone 
teach us progress; we do not know 2 times 2 to be almost 4, 
neither do we know it at all until we know it to be perfectly 4. 
This reveals the fact that sense imperfections as the confus- 
ion of mortal testimony cannot teach us anything. 



Mind 29 

In applying this same thought in another way we find that 
we cannot know honesty in any degree of dishonesty, and we 
do not know honesty at all until we know it alone in its Christ- 
meaning, as the love of righteousness. We are not and cannot 
really be honest until we understand and accept honesty as 
the love of true righteousness. When we thoroughly love right- 
eousness to the point of knowing its perfection in manifesting 
good, then will we be honest. Honesty based upon the power 
of the police force, or upon the limits of material law as license, 
is not honesty but straight dishonesty, for there is no love 
of right in it. 

Jesus said for us to be perfect and not to excuse ourselves 
with on the way there ideas, those diluted with mortal self-will 
or impotence. 

This supreme law of perfection as a principle of Mind 
ideas, which are to us as states of conscious being, high above 
all other knowledge and exalted in the last degree of truth 
as absolute perfection; is the most important of all things to 
know. And as it is a perfect principle, then it can be known 
perfectly and learned with certainty; indeed it cannot be ob- 
tained in any other way. 

Jesus said in John 16:7, "It is expedient for you that I go 
away, for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto 
you; but if I depart I will send him unto you." That is He will 
send the universal concept of the power of Mind expressed as 
a law of life, love, truth. 

When the Comforter has come into each individual heart, then 
shall we realize that it was expedient for us to lose our mortal 
concept of the Christ consciousness as a material being of flesh 
and blood, bound by the deceiving-sense to one place and time, 
as the man Jesus; for this false mortal concept would limit our 
understanding of the universal Christ as Spirit, who is ever- 
present everywhere as the perfect law of life-action, love-sub- 
stance, and truth-perfection. 

Therefore Mind is the supreme law of Life, Love, Truth 
because the Father and Christ are one. This law covers every 
phase of spiritual being and is portrayed in the diagram of the 



30 The Christ-Law 

Star of Bethlehem. Each one of the heads of the law in the 
nine points of the Star represent a phase of Mind's perfect 
being, and when we have mastered their expression then we 
shall have a true concept of just what the Father-Mind as 
Spirit is. 

Analysis of the Concepts of Mind and Imagination. 

In the following section of this work the reader is to be led 
through a course of reasoning, intended to reveal the alines s of 
the right and good and the nothingness of the evil and wrong; 
so that we may be able to give our allegiance to the right, and 
know it alone as worthy, and also why it is worthy. We are 
to gain an understanding of the real life in Mind, which is our 
immortal state of being and which is never to be lost. 

This section is of great importance, and the work of the law 
found herein is the separation of the good from the evil. 

That which opposes the concept of the Father-Mind or Spirit 
most strenuously is the force of material appearance as matter; 
and for this reason it is necessary for us to understand that 
matter in all its sense-appearance is but an infinite combina- 
tion of points of force, from the universe in tremendous revolu- 
tion down to ions in the same vibratory action. The seeming 
substance of matter is but the force given out by these vibra- 
tions. Now, behind this force, as material appearance, which is 
called matter, is the reality of being as the power of Spirit 
in Intelligence which we know as Mind. This fact must be 
realized, that when we view the material appearance as sub- 
stantial matter we are blinded by it and unable to perceive the 
spiritual truth behind it; and the reverse of this statement is 
also true, for when we see the truth of the spiritual presence 
we cannot longer acknowledge matter as real and true, or as 
substantial presence, for it will have to give way to the truth. 

Apparently we- have two ways of receiving testimony, one is 
through the five material senses, which are organs intended to 
catch and record on the brain all manner of material vibra- 
tions, both good and bad, indiscriminately; and mortals are 
helpless to resist these testimonies from the realm of outer 






Mind 31 

darkness. Their meaning to us because of sense interpretation 
of both good and evil is one of utter confusion, and through 
mortality or the living in the interpretation of sense,; there is 
no escape or help. This confusion is because of the constant 
change of matter which we do not understand. 

Another way of receiving testimony and information is through 
the soul or spiritual conscience; which does not testify of any 
material appearance, known as the ever transitory matter; but 
does testify of true states of spiritual being, such as a realized 
consciousness of honesty, purity, order, etc. These are states 
of being which cannot be tasted, smelled, seen, heard, or felt 
with the fingers, in a material way, that is by means of. material 
force. 

Now, when we consider the ideas of the infallible law of 
spiritual being as the one law of right, to be all, then must we 
of a necessity lose sight of the concept of right and wrong, which 
is constantly suggested to us by some condition of material 
appearance. , 

Matter, as a sense interpretation of a real and true spiritual 
state of being, must be a false and imperfect testimony, because 
it is obtained through the imperfected sense of mortals. Mat- 
ter therefore is but the result of a false interpretation and has 
no other substance but the force of a belief which is in con- 
stant change. This is the cause of our concepts of good and 
evil, and is that from which we must be delivered. 

Matter is but the shadow of that which is there in truth, 
and has no more to do with real spiritual being than the shadow 
of a tree has to do with the tree. We must learn to overlook 
the shadow of matter as material appearance, because of its dark- 
ening effect, and behold all things in the light of one true 
spiritual law. As our interpretations are, so will we be guided 
and led to give our allegiance, either to spiritual being or to 
material sensations, as the things real and true. 

Jesus said that a kingdom divided against itself would be 
brought to desolation, also that our own house of conscience 
would suffer the same fate; if we made ourselves servants to 
obey the testimony of both sense and soul interpretations. This 



32 The Christ-Law 

would be a divided house and would reap the reward of deso- 
lation in utter confusion, which in turn would work our certain 
destruction. 

From now on our full effort must be given to separating 
material concepts from spiritual concepts that we may learn 
to give our allegiance to the spiritual ones alone. They compose 
God's perfect law of righteousness and lead us into perfection;, 
wherein we lose our sense of fear because of association with 
changeable conditions of matter. 

This will come about gradually and slowly at first, because 
it is difficult to gain our consent to stop indulging in habits 
which have been so constantly in use that they seem a part of 
us; but as we take into consciousness the Christ-law we will find 
that this law will crowd out the evil concepts of mortality. 

The substance of matter is but the substance of a changeable 
belief, which is the result of imperfect sense interpretation, so 
that which appears to be matter is really spiritual. But matter 
as matter, a false concept, cannot have entity with power in its 
own right, for if it had power then there would be two powers, 
one of good and one of evil. It is inconceivable to think of two laws 
as powers, each prevailing against the other, for good cannot 
be bad, neither can bad be good, neither is there a good and a bad 
God, as a power of Spirit of one perfection. Because a right 
and a wrong God is impossible. One trait or the other must 
give way, and our Saviour said that he had made the bad to 
give way. We can profit through his law of right in righteous- 
ness, not right and wrong, Spirit and matter, but Spirit alone 
in the living of the Christ-law of one good. 

Jesus said that that which was born of the flesh was flesh 
and so must abide in the flesh interpretation, never anything 
more; but that that which is born of the Spirit is spirit and 
must abide in the spiritual interpretation. Therefore our work 
is to separate the things of material interpretation from those 
of the spiritual interpretation to be able to discover our own 
spiritual perfection, for we are commanded to walk in this 
perfection and partake of the dominion which it gives forth. 






Mind 33 

Now, just how can we lose our concept of matter as an entity 
having power in its own right, and gain a concept of Spirit as 
all power having real dominion in its own right to rule the uni- 
verse in perfection? 

Matter and all of its testimony is but an appearance which 
comes into sight for a time and then goes out of sight. Its 
forms come within the range of the mortal sense and then go 
out of that range; but our Saviour said that we were not to 
judge through sense appearance, but rather through spiritual 
perception of the Christ-law as righteousness. 

Truth and right, as the law of presence, can be known and 
used in a practical way, even in this state of existence, for we 
know that the truth about anything is permanent and present 
at all times; this excludes all testimony of material appearance, 
for it cannot be trusted. Not until we have reduced our concept 
of matter to a form of spiritual progress, in which matter loses 
its substance and spirit takes its place, can we get away from 
matter as a sense belief of that which has beginning and end, 
fearing the end as a final oblivion. 

Matter in the spiritual concept is a revelation from the store- 
house of Mind, and we must be very careful that we give to it 
the spiritual interpretation, because the life-action, love-sub- 
stance, truth-perfection of it is all that is lawful to know. 
Jesus said that unless a grain of wheat fell into the ground 
and came forth as many more, it abode alone; that is was not 
kept in revelation. 

Spirit will answer any question satisfactorily, while matter will 
answer none because of its deceptive appearance. Spirit as law 
is the cause of every bit of perfect presence, it is the very 
substance of all presence; while matter testifies of absence in 
constant destruction, the ultimate of which is a concept of noth- 
ingness. Things do not cease to have being because of the 
power of Spirit to hold them in perfection, therefore the world 
is real and true, but as spirit only, in the spiritual concept. 
The First Table of the Law 

The following table is the first revelation of Mind's meaning 
to men, according to the Christ-law of life, love, truth. It is 



34) The Christ-Law 

intended to be committed to memory in the same way that we 
committed the multiplication table, so that we may have it 
firmly fixed in conscience, ready for use in time of need, to 
prevail against the evil sense-suggestions. 

Even as we learned the multiplication table we are to learn 
these also, for there is a very great similarity in the two. We 
need to learn and use them both in order to become expert in 
their use and be able to manifest the good which both express, 
and partake of their dominion. 

At the end of each chapter will be found the table which 
amplifies that head of the law, and time should be spent with 
it in order to profit in spiritual expression; for they express 
not only the letter of the law but the spirit also. 

From this center of the law as Mind, goes forth in infinite 
radiation every idea of Mind as a perfect state of spiritual 
being; reaching to the farthest distance of Mind's development 
and giving the life-love-truth-law as the substance of the perfect 
Christ. 

Table One. 

The action of Mind equals Life. 
The substance of Mind equals Love. 
The perfection of Mind equals Truth. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of Mind 
are Life, Love, Truth. All of which are in the realm of Mind 
and are Mind. These are the first revelation to man of Mind's 
perfect meaning. 

This table is the beginning of the one righteous law of the 
Christ and is to be carried on in other circles of development, 
even into infinite expression of God's word. 

This work will be the immortal existence with which we are 
promised and the progress of each individual depends upon their 
earnestness in service to God. We must not forget that all of 
God's word is inherent within our own conscience waiting to be 
uncovered from sense concepts which have blinded and hidden 
from us our real and true being in the likeness of Mind. 






CHAPTER II. 

LIFE 

The Action op Mind. 

Life equals the action of Mind as "I Will." 

Our active conscience is the reflected image of the thinking 
Soul as Omniscience. 

That spontaneous volition or will of life to live, as the will of 
good, is the source of all action anywhere to be found in the uni- 
verse, for it is the living universe in all of its active phases of 
spiritual expression ; the living presence of all things revealed and 
unrevealed. 

This law of the spirit of God, as the Mind of good, presents 
itself to our conscience through life's action in a principle of per- 
fect idea entities, which constitute our states of spiritual being 
as soul experiences of life, love, truth. This principle is based 
upon deductive idealism, that is, that these ideas originate and 
are constantly in radiation from one source and center of life- 
action, love-substance, truth-perfection called Mind. 

Life as active Mind is the one and only active Being which is 
able to give us an understanding that will stand and prevail. So 
let us consider this one and only source of authoritative testi- 
mony, which is the voice of the Spirit of truth as the Holy Ghost 
speaking within our conscience, and always declaring this one 
supreme law of perfection as our means of perfect guidance. 
Even within the secret place of active knowing do we listen with 
reverence to its testimony; therefore it is absolutely necessary 
that we have this understanding consciousness, from which to 
work out our problems with certainty, and to be able to grasp 
quickly the revelations of the law which are given unto us. This 
dominion of Mind's action teaches its offspring all that it is to 
know through a perfect law of spiritual prevailing. 



36 The Christ-Law 

The Bible and all other religious writings based thereon are 
records of this testimony, given to those who through obedience 
have fitted themselves to receive it; and when we read these same 
records we do not believe them simply because we have read 
them, but because within the secret place of understanding, we 
come in contact with the approval of the testimony of Spirit with 
our spirit, which is our one place of final testimony. And therein 
do we receive a knowing which we cannot deny neither argue 
with, for it is final and satisfying, and constitutes our spiritual 
perception as true understanding. 

Active life, that power of Mind which does all that is done; if 
directed into the channel of material personality in obedience 
and allegiance to any temporal power, feeling compelled to serve 
this personality, cannot but instill fear into our being, because 
of its imperfection and helplessness. 

It will cause fear because we are not given any material means 
by which we can surely and certainly receive a final testimony of 
knowing through personality, and trust it implicitly. 

Therefore on the day that we cease to give our allegiance as 
the will of life-action with intent to serve man made laws, social 
demands, chronic habits, etc., and accept unconditionally the law 
of spiritual perfection in the image of the Christ-meaning of 
life, love, truth, shall we cease our fear and come into our in- 
heritance of a realized soul experience of good. 

This law of rightful guidance will cover all others and sub- 
ordinate them to its influence so that they will become superflu- 
ous; it will reveal their impotence as uncertain props, and mere 
excuses to serve other gods. 

These man made laws are a blighting incubus of fear to all 
those who come under their influence, for their intent is one of 
material coercion to gratify the self-will of mortals. 

So let us consider the action of Mind as all power, as the act 
of a soul experience and understand wherein it is all power; for 
our sure foundation is based upon our knowing the three powers 
of Mind, one of which is life-action in demonstration as that 
which will compel us to know. This will be more fully explained 



Life 37 

in future chapters, but suffice it for the present to state that 
dominion as truth's action makes us to know. 

In John 8:12, we read, "Then spake Jesus again unto them, 
saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall 
not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life." 

These shall have the light of understanding as given in the 
law of the Christ-Mind as the active consciousness of life, love, 
truth. 

Luke 8:17. "For nothing is secret (as spiritual perception) 
that shall not be made manifest, neither anything hid (by false 
mortal concepts), that shall not be known and come abroad." 

Luke 8:18. "Take heed therefore how ye hear (as though 
material sense testimony or through a soul experience in con- 
science), for whosoever hath (the law as a soul experience) to 
him shall be given (he will increase and have abundance) and 
whosoever hath not (the law as a soul experience, but is satisfied 
with his sense experiences) from him shall be taken away, that 
which he seemeth to have. (All false concepts of material condi- 
tions shall vanish away)/ 3 

These statements by Jesus make it very plain that the life in 
Mind in the image of spiritual action is the one which is to last. 

John 12:32, "And I, (the counterpart of Mind as the supreme 
law of perfection in the expression of life, love, truth) if I be 
lifted up from the earth, (that is the perfect concept is separated 
from the imperfect) will draw all men unto me (because T am 
constructive good as life, love, truth, and free from mortality):" 

John 17:3, "And this is life eternal, that they might know 
thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ (the law of life-love- 
truth-meaning of God), whom thou hast sent." 

Therefore to know, that is to have a soul experience of the one 
true God, as the Spirit of Mind, or the Mind of Good; and also 
the counterparts thereof as the Spirit of Christ in life-action, 
love-substance, truth-perfection, we must express every perfect 
idea as a state of spiritual consciousness which proceedeth out of 
the mouth of God, out of Mind, 



38 The Christ-Law 

This is life eternal and is found portrayed in the perfect ideas 
as states of consciousness, which are arranged in orderliness ac- 
cording to the Christ-law in the diagram of the Star of Bethlehem. 

Therefore the world-force of material sensation is not life or 
any part of life but its direct opposite. The false sense-inter- 
pretation which is given to gravitation, electricity, magnetism 
does not and cannot understand these forces or reveal their truth. 
Not until we give these world powers their spiritual interpreta- 
tion shall we understand that the worldly life according to sense 
interpretation is not life but death. 

The animal-sense magnetism or the mortal interpretation of 
the experience of birth and death, which is the beginning and 
end of this sense interpretation of destruction, is not life, but a 
false concept of true life as immortal existence. The whole ex- 
perience of mortality as sense imagination, from the very first cry 
to the last groan is one of material destruction ; and we all know 
that as soon as we enter this concept of being born materially that 
therein we begin the experience of death. Death is a false con- 
cept, for it is a sense interpretation through an imperfect organ 
which cannot possibly give the truth. This material sense dies 
daily even unto the climax of a final end as nothingness, the ob- 
livion of the falsity in the life of flesh which profits nothingness. 

The animal-sense man, a beast most terrible from the beginning 
hitherto, as given in Isa. 18, is the one of death which alone dies 
with all other beasts, for the whole intent of this animal-sense 
magnetism, the beast of evil or devil working within as the mortal 
consciousness, is a cursed intent to kill and destroy continually in 
opposition to good. It would exalt itself above the good, and sub- 
stituting itself in our place pose as God's child, and borrow of 
our real life-action to destroy us that it might make evil seem 
real. 

We have but to look abroad upon the earth and witness the 
bestial or animal nature exhibited by the human sense-mind, 
guided by this false sense-interpretation called animal magne- 
tism, to realize the evil force of this world which is called life, 
but which is not life but death for it invariably expresses death, 
nothingness. 



Life 39 

The seeming action of the animal-sense magnetism as a false 
concept of a life which dies, and is already dead, could not be 
expressed within us if we of our .own volition did not unlawfully 
give it action, lend to it our sacred trust of real life-action in 
spirit that our purity might be defiled therein. 

The man made law of the survival of the fittest is the channel 
through which we reach this fury and destruction, and we must 
take notice that it all comes about through sense judgments, judg- 
ments according to sense appearances, which our Saviour said 
were unlawful because they cannot ever prevail, they seem to win 
for a while but each one is sure to go down before another one. 

When we live as an animal-sense man or mortal, experiencing 
this extermination of each other in an effort to kill, rob, and de- 
stroy, that we may possess another's substance to gratify our 
thirst and lust for material possessions ; then we should stop and 
be thoughtful for a moment until we come out of this terrible 
dream. For in it we are gathering a whirlwind of fury and self- 
destruction in the time to come when all shall be fulfilled by our 
Saviour; that is all shall be filled full of good, because the good 
is that which prevails immortality. 

Therefore this animal-sense-mind of the mortal, this hateful 
evil spirit within mortals as the one evil or evil one, which works 
through suggestion because of material appearance, therein lead- 
ing us astray into deeds of sorrow, pain, misery and death con- 
cepts, cannot be any part of life or life-action in the spirit, for it 
is an imagination as a dream only. 

Life is immortal good, it is immortal presence in the spiritual 
concept. 

In John 3 :5, Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee except 
a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the 
kingdom of God." Verse 6, "That which is born of the flesh is 
flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." 

Herein Jesus speaks of that which is born of the fleshly sense- 
interpretation as a false sense imagination, and he says that this 
concept is of itself nothingness, that is about nothingness for 
i there is no life in it. But that the spiritual concept about lawful 
being which accords with the Christ-law is born of the Spirit of 



40 The Christ-Law 

perfection, and that this lawful spiritual consciousness is the one 
which we are to attain in order to be quickened into life. 

In John 6:6S, He says, "It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the 
flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak unto you, they are 
spirit and they are life." 

This means that a soul experience as a consciousness of con- 
structive good alone is that which quickens us into life, and is 
true life-action for all things of flesh conception are death. 

In Matt. 8:22, "Jesus said unto him, follow me: and let the 
dead bury their dead." That is let mortals bury their false inter- 
pretations. 

We must follow the law of life in spiritual concepts and en- 
deavor to express every word in the Christ-law as a state of 
spiritual consciousness ; these are represented in the Life realm of 
the Star as Intelligence, Being, Wisdom, and the ideas which pro- 
ceed from them. 

Rom. 8 :6, "For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spir- 
itually minded is life and peace." This tells us plainly that to 
follow material sensations in their attractions and distractions is 
death and will lead into oblivion; but that to abide within the 
secret place of knowing the Christ-law of life-action, love-sub- 
stance, truth-perfection, will lead into an immortal existence. 

I John 3:14, "We know that we have passed from death unto 
life, because we love the brethren, he that loveth not his brother 
abideth in death." This means that we must give as an interpre- 
tation to all things even to men, the life-love-truth-meaning and 
know no other. 

One thing we must do, we must give the spiritual interpretation 
to all things and have it alone within consciousness, that we may 
live. 




Life 



41 



The Comparison of Life Ideas and Death Imaginations 



:e J Dominion 
ath ^ Impotence 



Loyalty 
Treason 



Obedience I Service 

Opposition ' Subversion 



Loveliness 
Meanness 



Infallibility 
Deception 



Being 
Nothingness 



, Control 
» Surrender 



Power 
Helplessness 



Reality 
Falsity 



, Infinity 
^ Finiteness 



Presence 
Absence 



Faith 

Fidelity 

Allegiance 

{Ministration 
Diligence 
Adoration 

( Gratitude 
-j Charity 
( Patience 

( Stability 
•j Certainty 
( Constancy 

Success 

Achievement 

Mastery 

Authority 

Ability 

Finality 

Spirituality 

Actuality 

Vitality 

Universality 

Absoluteness 

Eternity 

Perpetuity 

Immutability 

Existence 



Doubt 

Enmity 

Antagonism 

Enticement 

Indolence 

Contempt 

Despite 

Malignity 

Petulance 

Transition 

Chance 

Suspension 

Failure 
Defeat 
Servitude 

Pretense 

Futility 

Opinion 

Mortality 

Fable 

Spiritless 

Limitation 
Restriction 
Momentariness 

Cessation 

Changeableness 

Expiration 



42 The Christ-Law 

LIFE, the Action of Mind, versus DEATH, as a Mortal 

Concept. 

Beginning with the fact of our own conscience as the seat of 
life-action, whose presence and identity and individuality we can- 
not deny ; also that our own conscience as a state of realization or 
mental^action, which is always a soul experience of perfect truth, 
must, be our life-action in its perfect being. For intuitively we 
know that we are, that is have being, because of a higher and 
mightier power than any which we possess, also that we are in 
some way connected with this wonderful spiritual power. 

If universal being did not have its being independent of mortal 
imaginations it would become involved in these falsities, and a 
perfect expression of the Christ-law would be impossible; hence 
we as expressors of the perfect law are not and cannot be the 
law. 

Let us consider presence as manifest being, and know this 
presence to be spiritual law expressing all perfect being; for by 
law we mean the fact of immutable infallible truth. This pres- 
ence of one perfect right or power of law, must be perfected 
states of spiritual being, which are unassailable and indestructa- 
ble. Their presence is the all-presence of Being, and constitutes 
the substance of all Being, in fact, is not presence composed of 
law which is the power of right in every perfect idea as a state 
of spiritual perfection known as God, the Father-Mind or Spirit. 

When we gain the concept of presence as infinite Mind com- 
posed of the infinite laws of one right, and expressed in right 
ideas which are set forth in an orderly principle of being, then 
we gain a true concept of real presence. We are then delivered 
from our false mortal-sense-concept of space filled with its death 
appearance of imperfect matter as presence. 

Our true consciousness or spiritual concept of presence is a 
soul's realization of this ever-present, unassailable, and inde- 
structible law. It is a law of absolute perfection and excludes any 
law of wrong from having any being at all; accordingly it is an 
unthinkable thing to conceive of this ever-presence as a law of 



Life 43 

both right and wrong, for one or the other must prevail; and one 
has prevailed and constitutes the presence of infinite goodness 
and love as all being. 

We know that presence as active being or life cannot be absence 
as death, and also that presence is never absent, dead. There- 
fore if presence is the living law of right expressed in all right 
ideas as states of spiritual being, then there can be no imperfect 
or wrong ideas which have being or presence, and claim to be en- 
tities with power as a law. 

When we have established this concept of the allness of one 
law of right as constructive good and accepted it, we are lifted 
up out of sense confusion; for we have found one standard of 
sure certainty, which is the prevailing of spiritual law as the truth 
of constructive good. 

Good as love is the substance of the law of right, and the law 
of right is the power of substantial good; both together are the 
perfection of real being in truth. 

This powerful righteous law of perfect good, is God; its pres- 
ence in his presence; its right is his will or law; its power is his 
truth expressed as the everpresent now, even as all eternity 
which cannot be destroyed. 

We as active spiritual entities are children of God, expressors 
of the one law of good and right which are the only states of 
consciousness which can be expressed; and when we realize this 
fact and abide therein we come to know God, we become healthy 
because clean in mind and heart. 

It is inconceivable that this perfect law should be chaotic in 
nature and intent of presence; and it is only when we go down 
into the pit of sense interpretation as mortal imaginations of im- 
perfection, thereby forgetting the law that we become afraid and 
suffer from our misplaced thoughts. But as soon as we recover 
our equilibrium and return to the law we become right once more 
and live in peace. 

If life is immortal and eternal then it does not die, that is, go 
into oblivion; neither is it ever anything but living action. As 
far as we and our concepts, also expressions of life are concerned 
when we once obtain the possession of eternal life in consciousness 



44 The Christ-Law 

of the perfect law, thereby knowing just what life is, and by liv- 
ing it become perfectly like its immortality, then do we realize 
the ever-living life-action in Mind. 

Life is an ever-present infinite presence as a law of spiritual 
power. It is grasped and known to us as a present state of right 
being which cannot be abolished; for to abolish presence as a 
perfect law of right is unthinkable, and cannot enter into the 
mind of the children of God, but is found in the imaginations of 
mortals. 

Therefore death as mortality, the opposite of life or spiritual- 
ity, is all that can die; death as mortal concepts never did live 
or have any life, because they are imaginations of the mortal- 
sense-mind, impressions of material conditions which are no part 
of infinite Mind. 

Jesus said, "Let the dead bury their dead." Let mortals bury 
their mortality. "But follow thou me," follow his law in expres- 
sions of life-action, love-substance, truth-perfection only. 

Life and death cannot both have entity, being, that is both 
abide within one supreme law of perfection; because both 
cannot prevail and be supreme. 

Is not death as a false mortal-sense concept, a wrong interpre- 
tation of that which happens in the perfect progress of life-action ? 
Is not the imperfect concept laid aside, that is, the bodily appear- 
ance of flesh as a wrong view of man given up? Sense interpre- 
tation overcome by the divine progress of life-action that we may 
be free from its fury and confusion? 

Having been born into this death concept it matters little how 
we get over it, so long as we overcome it and gain the spiritual 
concept of life-action in Mind, the flesh does not live and never 
did, for both dead- flesh and its opposing live Mind cannot be 
one in substance. 

Death then as the laying down of mortality is a false concept, 
is a mortal imagination about which we know nothing. We need 
not strive to bring it into somethingness for it will be a useless 
effort, it is no part of God's law of perfect being, and all that we 
have a right to express is this law of perfect being. 



Life 45 

When we interpret the Bible, from the standpoint of the Star, 
then we understand the allness of the presence and power of 
Mind as life-action. 

In John 1 'A we read where life or light is the understanding 
of men as the spiritual conscience in action; and in verse 5, the 
presence of the Christ-law, as the substance of this conscience, 
shines in all the radiance and light of good revealing perfect 
intelligence. The darkness of mortal imagination does not sense 
it and cannot comprehend it; but the children of Spirit can 
and do. 

John 3 :36, "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life : 
and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life." 

To know and express the law of the Christ-life-love-truth- 
meaning of things is to see and perceive their life-action-sub- 
stance-perfection. But to abide in the sense confusion of two 
laws, having the blind faith or fear of mortals in life and death; 
absolutely prohibits an ability to know anything to be true for 
a certainty. 

John 5 :25, "Verily, verily, I say unto you the hour cometh, 
and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of 
God ; and they that hear shall live." 

The dead are those among us who abide in the confusion of 
mortality, experiencing the fury of two laws of good and evil; 
no matter in what sphere they are, either here or in the here- 
after, either out of the range of these mortal senses, or in them, 
they can hear the voice of the Son of God, sense may be dead, 
but conscience cannot be killed; that conscience which hears this 
law of the Christ will live in it. 

John 17:3, "And this is life eternal; that they might know 
thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent." 

To know Mind and the Christ-meaning of Mind, is to express 
his perfect law of good and loveliness, for God and his Christ 
are Love. 

The Life Table. 

The following table is that which belongs to the realm of 
life, and is to be committed to memory, as the others have been. 



46 The Christ-Law 

The truth-perfection of Life equals Intelligence. 

The life-action of Life equals Being. 

The love-substance of Life equals Wisdom. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Life; in the second revelation of Mind are Intel- 
ligence, Being, Wisdom. These ideas refer to Life. 

Under these heads of the law are arranged those ideas which 
express action as their individuality to demonstrate the law of 
life. 

It will be noticed that the error thoughts are not represented 
herein, for we are supposed to have gotten rid of them before 
turning to this page. We cannot know and understand for a 
certainty the spiritual meaning of the ideas given in this table 
until we are free from belief in their evil opponents. 

Having turned from the concept of error or evil then let us 
enter the realm of life and note some of its reality and true 
being. 

Life is the will of good in action. It is the beginning of all 
consciousness, and has its incentive in the attractive power of 
love as good. The intent of the will of good is to manifest 
good or love, for they are one and inseparable; one upholds the 
other, each the cause and effect of the other, and there is no 
need of anything outside; in fact, there is no outside, for they 
are all. 

Life in its action produces good or love, and love as substan- 
tial good is ever an attracting power to set life in action. 

Life in its living gives love being, and combined with love as 
good in action, we are sure to arrive at the concept of perfection 
or truth; so it is that life combined with love equals truth; or 
truth is but love in action. 

Life-action, as the will of good, is the motive power of the 
universe, and is that which perfects love through truth, for life 
is the cause of being in all three, binding them into one. Con- 
sidered from the standpoint of being, or that power which is 
responsible for existence; we find that in the same way that 
life combined with love equals truth, that is (active substance 



Life 47 

equals perfection) ; so love combined with truth equals life, that 
is {substantial perfection or substance perfected equals action). 
Again truth combined with life equals love; that is {perfected 
action equals substance). Life therefore is fully expressed in 
substance perfected; or by love made true. 

God and his law, as the will of good, cannot be separated, 
for they are one substance, and cannot be more or less than 
perfection to express a perfect law of life, love, truth. 

We as sons of God, spiritual mentalities with the power to 
repeat his perfect being, must be spiritual and not material; ac- 
cordingly we have a perfect right to this will of good, and are 
commanded to walk in it and find our perfection in the image 
and likeness of Spirit. This will of good, called life or mind- 
action, is ours in all of its strength and might, to be used to 
express every good idea as a state of spiritual being, and for 
this alone. It must be our first attainment and spiritual pos- 
session, for without it we are not master of ourselves, and cannot 
prevail against sense suggestion, but with it we are master and 
can prevail. 

This will of good, when once obtained in conscience, will master 
every state of being and reveal its perfection. It is incited 
through a clear knowledge of the law of life, love, truth associ- 
ation as action, substance and perfection. The attraction of love 
as good is its power and motive center, and we must practice it 
in a clear consciousness of what we are doing and why we are 
doing it, that we may see clearly its presence and power for 
good, for in this are we strengthened and made to live, that is, 
quickened into being. 



CHAPTER III. 

LOVE 

The Substance of Mind. 

Love equals the substance of Mind as "I Am." 

Our substantial conscience is a reflected image of constructive 
good. 

A realization in heart of constructive good is our spiritual 
sense of true love; for it certainly is lovely and lovable, forming 
the basis and foundation of all loveliness of character. 

Love is that substantial state of spiritual consciousness which 
is active life in perfect operation. It is the result of life's action 
in unison, and in harmony with the supreme law of constructive 
good. 

Love is that irresistable attraction which constructive good has 
for all men, the perfect leading and guiding power of the divine 
Mind as the supreme law of perfection. We all work at our 
many individual vocations, that we may experience each night 
the reward of good therefrom. Many people, however, being de- 
ceived as to what constitutes good do not receive it, because they 
have followed the testimony of mortal sense, which reverses the 
definition of good from God to self. Through selfishness or 
self-will they have been led to believe that anything which pleases 
mortality is good; be it theft, drunkenness, sensuality, falsehood 
or any vice whatsoever, so long as it pleases mortals, it is good, 
that is, lovely. 

Not until these persons learn of the true law of constructive 
good, and gain a working knowledge of its perfect power, to 
prevail against all imperfect and erroneous thoughts as selfish 
intentions, will they be made free from accepting destructive evil 
in place of constructive good or love. 



Love 49 

The power of Mind in love is its irresistable attraction as the 
drawing power of good, for which we are all laboring and striv- 
ing, and when we seek first, last, and all the time, to manifest 
good from the standpoint of one supreme law of perfection, evil 
intention will vanish into nothingness and the light of true love 
will appear. 

When the perfect good is manifested by the use of this law, 
and been once experienced, will men search diligently for it 
because of the health, peace, and joy found therein. 

Love is that soul experience of good which is in the secret 
place of knowing; it is the peace of mind and rejoicing with 
another, because good has been manifested instead of some evil 
terror. Love is the substance of our own rightful selfhood, that 
consciousness which is the foundation of right thoughts, desires 
and intentions; those things which always please the Father 
because within his law. Love is a perpetual quietness of heart, 
the peace, joy, and repose in consciousness of good; it is the 
known power of right, which prevails against the sting of offense, 
and always deprives offense of its ability to provoke. This comes 
to every one who knows the law of Christ's teaching and mean- 
ing of life, love, truth. 

All real and true thoughts, as states of spiritual consciousness, 
have the one standard of constructive good or love as their base 
of being. 

In 1st Cor. 3:16 we read, "Know ye not that ye are the 
temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you?" 
(The spirit of constructive good as love.) 

Verse 17. "If any man defile the temple of God, him will 
God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." 
{Ye as a spiritual mentality, active in the perfection of con- 
structive good.) 

The attractive and guiding power of love abides naturally 
within our conscience, for it is our rightful conscience — a very 
sacred place made by our Father for his abode. If we know 
not the one perfect law established therein, we are at the mercy 
of the evil sense, and cannot help but defile this sacred place 



50 The Christ-Law 

of the law's abode; for we do not know how to resist the testi- 
mony which says, "Anything that pleases me is good." 

Herein we are led astray into error, and not into love's domain 
of holiness, that we may thoroughly know this temple of con- 
science as the abode of good, and worship God therein. To 
defile this sacred place of God's abode with mortal self-will, as 
imperfect sense-concepts of destruction, is our sin in opposition 
to God, and our reward is desolation. 

In 1 John 4:17 we read, "Beloved, let us love one another; 
for love is of God {good), and every one that loveth is born of 
God, and knoweth God {good), "He that loveth not knoweth 
not God, for God {good) is love." 2 John. 6. "And this is love, 
that we walk after his commandments. And this is the com- 
mandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning ye should 
walk in it." Ye should walk according to the law of perfection 
and become perfect therein. 

Surely, good as love in its infinite expressions, as exhibited in 
the Star of Bethlehem, is the one and only law of the Christ- 
meaning of life, love, truth. It is that in which we can walk 
and became perfect, because it is the portrayal of truth alone. 

This Christ-meaning of life, love, truth, is the substance of 
our understanding, and there is no perfect understanding, apart 
from this one, of a realized consciousness of constructive good 
in heart. It exists within our hearts as a soul experience of the 
living Christ of love in presence, who watches over us and guides 
us aright. 

What is Love? 

Love is not an idea of reward, neither a state of being which 
is bought or sold. It is not a thought of good in exchange, but 
the doing of God's will to please God, because we love good. 

In Matt. 5 :46 we read, "For if ye love them which love you, 
what reward have ye, do not even the publicans the same?" 

We must rise higher than mortality or mortal standards to 
reach a spiritual concept of love, for Christ's love is not con- 
taminated with the lust of mortals. Mortals do not get love of 
mortals, but from the one law of good as Love. The reason that 
we do not get love from mortals is because we do not trust them ; 



Love 5 1 

and because of their selfishness they do not give us a final 
testimony of their love, that we might trust them. They do not 
as a body of people start that spark of light within our hearts 
and fan it into a blaze with continued unselfishness, and persist 
therein until we cease to fear; for having learned that mortals 
cannot be trusted we do not easily overcome this experience. 

Mortals cannot be trusted, because they have not the love of 
God in their hearts. They do not know the attractive power of 
good, which alone can be trusted. Sometimes we turn away from 
our mistrust of mortals unto nature, and behold there a beauti- 
ful landscape, or maybe a wonderful field of flowers, and find 
relief from our suspicion of deceitful men, in the consciousness 
of peace within our own hearts as a sure reflection of the law. 
But to find the real love of the Christ we must close eyes and 
ears to all appearances of matter, and go into the secret place 
of the most High God, becoming absent to all things of matter, 
and when fully in touch with Spirit learn of the things which 
can be trusted at all times, and then will we find love. 

Every love idea is already inherent within our heart's con- 
science, and is an absolute part of our perfect being; but be- 
cause of sense testimony we do not realize this fact, that is, that 
out of the living abundance of this good which is established 
within us do we constantly take for an interpretation of love, 
expressed in beauty, peace, loveliness, symmetry, etc. If these 
perfect states of conscience were not a part of our real selfhood 
we could not use them to give meaning to things. 

These individual living-entities as God's ideas are our states 
of being, always ready to reveal the good to our hearts which 
comes in the perfect form of love. Love is the substance of these 
ideas, the substantial body of their perfect being, in the expres- 
sion of which we find our loveliness as love's reflection. 

There is a good deal to be said about love, when it is considered 
as constructive good. The possession of good is our eternal 
work, and it is therefore very essential that we have a good idea 
of that which we are in search. First of all, we must realize 
that true love is not given to mortal sense to be defiled in all 



52 Ths Chbist-Law 

manner of ways through imaginations, for real love cannot be 
denied or lost ; this is because of its power over evil to destroy it. 

Love is the substantial fact within all good, that good which 
is immortal and infallibly right only. It is given to those 
souls who are ready and willing to repent, and lay down mor- 
tality, in order to be able to take up spirituality — those people 
who are ready to turn from sense imaginations of evil ..conditions 
and study the law faithfully and honestly. To them will be 
given an inner perception of love's perfect being in likeness 
of the Father-Mind or Spirit. 

It is love which lightens the soul and fills the whole body with 
the refreshing joy of gladness and thanksgiving; it makes active 
the life within us; it perfects the good within us, and we are 
staid, tranquil, strong, and all because we know Christ's love. 

Without this Christ-love in our hearts we are as dead people, 
knowing sensations of death in material appearances only, things 
which we can not and do not trust, for they are not real and true. 

When we eliminate our concept of mortals and see the child 
of God in their place, and know that this child is an active 
spiritual mentality in perfect expression of the law, and that 
they and we are all one in the law of spiritual righteousness, 
then can we love this child and abide with it in perfect love ; 
and this is our command that we love the child of God even as 
we love ourself, for all are in God one conscience. 



Love 



The Comparison of Love Ideas and Hate Imaginations 



Love 



Judgment 
Compromise 



Righteousness , Honesty 
Error Hypocrisy 



Justice 
Imposition 



Wisdom 



Hate i Idioc y 



Holiness 
Wickedness 



( Rationality 
■j Choice 
( Reason 

( Integrity 
■< Morality 
( Uprightness 

l Fairness 
■< Equity 
(Justification 



Futility 

Undiscernment 

Enigma 

Duplicity 
Sacrilege 
Fraud 

Partiality 

Artifice 

Imputation 



[ Demonstration {£*S letion 
Neglect 



Sufficiency 

i Proof Mystery 

Manifestation Supposition 



i Sagacity 
] Foolishness 



Knowledge 
Imagination 



Consecration 
Perversity 



• Sanctity 

* Blasphemy 



Purity 
Adulteration 



( Attainment 
■j Perspicuity 
( Sageness 



Superstition 

Ambiguity 

Silliness 



Information Illusion 

Erudition Illiteracy 

Comprehension Void 

Dedication Aversion 

Veneration Dishonor 

Devoutness Disregard 



i Communion 
Grace 
Sacredness 



Scorn 

Corruption 

Profanity 



j Cleanness Filthiness 

■J Immaculateness Sin 
I Virtue Vice 



54 The Christ-Law 

LOVE, the Substance of Mind, versus HATE, as a Mortal 

Concept. 

When we abide within the testimony of the soul-known things, 
we learn of love as the substance of good, that substantial fact 
of perfect right which is an uncompromising and perfect law 
of immortal being. But when we get careless and listen to the 
testimony of the deceiving sense, which suggests that we must 
worry about some material condition which conflicts with our 
desires, then we are off ended at the impotence and confusion of 
things. This offense is hate. It is the confusion of imperfect 
mortal thought-action, and is ever an offense as the sting of 
mortal impotence. 

It is a dangerous state of mind, for it robs us of all reason, 
and blinds us to every right thought. This aggressively active 
thing of offense or hate has no power or active expression of its 
own, neither life nor being. When it is expressed we may know 
at once that we have lent to it some of our own life-action, our 
god-given gift of thought-action, which was to be used upon 
right thoughts of love. We must not be led by sense suggestion 
into the act of destroying ourselves through listening to evil 
counsel. 

Whenever we lend to this thing of suggestion our blessed life- 
action that it may defile it, we are at once in what is called 
fear; because hate is exceedingly offensive and fearful to every- 
one. Surely, it does not testify of love and peace, and cannot 
manifest good in any form, therefore it is no part of the Christ- 
law. 

When we perceive that the whole intent, nature and purpose 
of hate, as an expression of the beast, or mortal-sense-mind, is 
one of destruction and intent to kill, because it imagines that 
that which is killed, cannot be longer sensed, then we will recog- 
nize it as unworthy of our attention. 

These two interpretations of sense and soul must be separ- 
ated and put widely apart in our consciousness, for one has a 



Love 55 

perfect standard of good, and can be understood with peace and 
love as a result, while the other has not. 

Hate is an unlawful state of consciousness, and is no part of 
any law. Its apparent being as an entity is hidden within a 
suggestion which comes to us as a false sense of material condi- 
tions. This suggestion demands that we take upon ourselves the 
right to rule according to our own opinion and substitute might 
for right. 

We mortals, struggling in the confusion of the animal-sense- 
mind, whose substance is that of hatefulness, because of imagina- 
tion and suggestion of evil, must arise and open our eyes to the 
fact of good within the perfect law of the Christ, where all is 
love and peace. We must cease to justify our own acts while 
abiding in fear, and to accredit our own imaginations and then 
realize their impotence and rest in fear and hate, for hate is 
mortal fear or death. We must know the ever-living power of 
life, which alone justifies all things, through its absolute continu- 
ation, regardless of mortal imaginations about it and about the 
changes of matter. 

The seeming end of all things as death is an imagination, and 
has no being which can be understood; it is feared as an appear- 
ance by those who do not look farther and deeper into life's action, 
for this would reveal the nothingness of death, and the allness of 
immortal life. 

Neither death nor hate is real or true, that is, have individuality 
as something to be feared, for they have no power as a law with 
an ability to work upon us their will of destruction. The Christ 
law, as all power, has deprived them of any power or ability, 
therefore we need not be afraid. 

Hate is useless and unworthy of our effort of mind-action. 
But the carnal-sense-mind of mortal imagination is ever striving 
to justify itself. To establish its own impotence and imperfection 
through a blinding sense of self-pity and injured innocence. But 
its aggressive suggestions, and use of subtle means in naming 
evil, will not help it to make them real. Its pretentions, assump- 
tions and subtle disguises in appearance will not avail it anything, 
for it is nothing, and has no being, neither power. 



56 The Christ-Law 

It cannot deceive the child of God, who has gained the true 
concept of eternal life-action, and learned to live in love. 

Hate is never justified, for there is no law within the realm 
of nothingness to justify anything, but love is always justified, 
for it is the law of the ever-prevailing Christ. 

The mortal imagination that hate will manifest good, and that 
we have a right to express it towards those who differ with us, 
for the benefit of all humanity or any other seeming reason, is 
absurd and foolish in the extreme sense of the word. It is the 
product of a darkened and blinded consciousness, that which 
cannot know, neither does it know the meaning of the allness 
of love as Christ. 

He who thinks to have time to hate evil, is hateful, and to be 
hateful, that is full of hate, is to hate God. We cannot manifest 
this quality of mind and know God, neither love, because to hate 
even evil is to hate, and cover our sense of love. Therefore to 
hate for any reason or cause whatsoever is unlawful and not 
justifiable, because it is not within the law of love, in which we 
have been commanded to walk. 

To express hate or opposition is to be blinded and hindered 
from gaining a clear concept of the allness of love as a law of 
immortal life-action, which is to be our second birth here in this 
experience of the flesh; and which is to deliver us from a concept 
of evil as something. 

Anyone who practices hate deceives themselves, but not others, 
for we are just what we build ourselves to be, either expressions 
of loveliness and good, or expressions of evil and hatefulness; 
and it is not possible to be both. For this reason it is well to 
search our own conscience to find out just how we appear to 
others, and better yet to see that which is in our own hearts, 
that we may know ourselves as we are. 

When we become awake to this habit of obeying the sugges- 
tion to be hateful, just because we can and feel like it, if for no 
other reason, we will be aware that we are living in mortal sense 
consciousness and not in the Christ consciousness; and it will 
be well for us to stand firm against this suggestion to hate that 
we be not blinded and destroyed therein. 



Love 57 

Anyone who is inclined to be hateful must stop and realize 
that if they will deny this evil impression, any of their life-action, 
that it will become helpless, and not able to express itself in 
offense, for no matter how offensive its appearance we cannot 
lawfully lend to it our life-action, that it may defile us. If we 
heed the many fine threads which hate spins within the mortal 
consciousness, such as worry, indifference, carelessness, self-ap- 
plause, inaction, obligation, etc., we shall suffer; and not until 
we overcome these shall we be able to understand love's action 
and live in harmony within the Christ-law. There is but one 
way to escape hatefulness, and it is to practice living the ideas 
of love, each one of which will become in conscience a sure bar- 
rier against its opponent of hate. 

The Love Table. 

The following table is that which belongs to the realm of 
love, and is to be committed to memory, as the others have been. 

The life-action of Love equals Obedience. 
The love-substance of Love equals Holiness. 
The truth-perfection of Love equals Harmony. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Love, in the second revelation of Mind, are Obe- 
dience, Holiness, Harmony. These ideas refer to Love. 

Under these heads of the law are arranged those ideas which 
express substance as their individuality to demonstrate the law 
of Love. 

It will be noticed that the error thoughts are not considered 
on this last page, for we are supposed to have gotten rid of them 
before making an attempt to know the good alone, that we might 
abide in Love. 

Life as the will of good, in its perfect being, is given an incen- 
tive to action through love's attraction. And in this chapter we 
are to consider love's attraction as the attraction of God, or 
good, which represents the actual possession of conscious good- 
ness. 



58 The Christ-Law 

But good to mortals stands for that which they esteem worthy 
and valuable — those things which are most desirable to mortality 
in each individual consciousness, be they whatsoever they may, 
either good or evil. 

We cannot abide in mortality, for there is no true standard in 
a multitude of opinions, neither in a concept of good and evil. 

We are therefore obliged to seek truth, or a true standard within 
the realm of spiritual being, according to the Christ-law of life- 
action, love-substance, truth-perfection. Even here there is one 
obstacle to us, and it is our mortality, for we are able to under- 
stand spiritual things only in so far as we are spiritualized, and 
only in so far as we know love, is love an attraction unto us. 

The will of good as an attraction of love is our first attain- 
ment in spiritual progress, after which comes a realization of the 
substance of good which we have possessed; this must be recog- 
nized and separated from a confused mass of mortal suggestions 
before we can grasp it clearly, and nail it down, so to speak, 
where it will not get lost. 

There are three concepts, from which we figure every other 
concept as a state of realization — the first one is life as action; 
the second one is this life as substance; the third one is life in its 
perfection. 

Life in its substance is the one which comes into this chapter 
and must hold the thought of the reader first and last, that it 
may be established as an entity. To make it more clear, let us 
take patience as a living entity and consider it in its phase of 
substance. 

Patience requires the will of good to establish it in being 
within our conscience, and without this will of good there is no 
patience established. We must discover the love-substance within 
patience, before we care to give to it this will of good perma- 
nently as an allegiance, for after this allegiance is once given 
there is no taking it back. 

To discover the good in being patient, we must, of course, 
practice patience carefully and thoughtfully, and if we do we 
are certain to perceive the good it manifests, which good in 
turn will have an irresistible attraction for us and will establish 



Love 59 

our will of good; we will eschew impatience in order to escape 
the fury which it manifests, and give our perfect allegiance to 
patience in order to experience the peace, love and joy of the 
Christ consciousness therein expressed. 

When we have placed our active will of good, in conjunction 
with the power of good, which is manifest in patience, as its 
reward of love, then have we revealed the attractiveness of good 
and realized it as love. 

This love, as the product of truth and life, is the substantial 
good which we must find within our own conscience; it means 
perfection as the Christ-law in action; this is the only substan- 
tial good which we may absolutely trust and love. 

Therefore, the substance of all being is represented by its 
truth and life, for love is the product of truth and life, as true- 
life in Mind; love is the living-truth of being; the real sub- 
stance of being as perfect-action: or action in perfection. Now, 
if we were not dead in the mortal consciousness, blinded and 
covered with evil thinking, we would be able to grasp this fact 
of life, love, truth association and come into the power of Spirit; 
and therein gain our healing ability, which the Christ so faith- 
fully promised those who should be able to believe in his perfect 
law, and persistently practice it. 

Slow as our progress may be at first, in turning from this way 
of mortal thought in good and evil expressions, there is nothing 
else to do but to persist in it until we accomplish it, for we must 
have our immortal life established, and that for a certainty because 
we know and can demonstrate it. 

Each idea, as a state of conscious being within the Christ-law, 
must be worked out and mastered perfectly, so that we can give 
to it our will of good or life-action as an allegiance, and be able 
to prevail against all evil opponents. 



CHAPTER IV. 

TRUTH 

The Perfection of Mind. 

Truth equals the perfection of Mind as "I Can." 

Our perfect conscience is a reflection of Spirit's perfection. 

Truth, as the completed and perfected state of consciousness, 
reveals constructive good as our final undertanding and know- 
ing. It is to make us free from sense suggestion, even as Jesus 
said in John 8:31, 32, "Ye shall know the truth (the supreme 
law of perfection) , and the truth shall make you free." That 
is, the power of Spirit testifying to our spirit shall be final of 
constructive good, and because of knowing good we shall not be 
able to know evil also, as that which has being. 

1 John 3:9, "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; 
for his seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin, because he is 
born of God." 

Few among us stop to realize the presence of truth within 
our own conscience as a convincing and satisfying power, because 
of its final testimony of good. This is because it often opposes 
our self-interests, which we are not willing to give up, that we 
might perceive the good which is in truth. 

This power of final testimony in truth is our third and last 
stage of knowing, and is the highest state of our understanding 
within the law of perfection; it is the finishing touch of Spirit 
to its temple of abode. 

Truth, as a supreme law or principle of all being, is the power 
of Mind or dominion which produces our perfect faith of know- 
ing, because of its absolute certainty. Now, the declaration of 
this certain knowing as a soul experience, because of the power 
of Mind as an uncompromising and ever-prevailing law, will 
drive out of consciousness all errors of every kind; and is bound 
to harmonize every discordant condition which is opposed to the 
law of truth or perfection. 



Truth 61 

Knowing this fact, and being instructed in the law, will surely 
overcome our willing or unwilling attachment to all illusive sense 
illusions, and deliver us from its torment as the fury of imperfect 
concepts. 

Why then should we defile our own pure selfhood in the image 
of Mind by following after the deceiving sense testimony, that 
is, after any of the treacherous worldly things to possess them? 
Are they not the things of outer darkness, those unclean and 
unlawful things of sense-suggestion which are not found within 
the temple of God? 

In these three chapters of life, love, truth; is found our sure 
foundation of eternal existence, and consists in knowing the three 
powers of Mind, with their proper use, that we may work out 
our salvation. 

First, as life-action, that active volition or will to live in good, 
is to do the will of the Father in constructive works, that we may 
manifest a constructive consciousness thereby. 

James 2:17, "Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being 
alone." 26, "For as the body, without the spirit, is dead, so 
faith without works is dead also." This same law is applicable 
to all manner of ideas in Mind, for each is a state of conscious- 
ness which must be manifest in good works in order to give it 
life or being. 

Second, we must know that the substance of that active con- 
sciousness is a realized presence of love, and that its power of 
Mind is an irresistible attraction and guiding power, as an influ- 
ence of good to lead all men into righteousness. 

Eph. 3:19, "And to know the love of Christ, which passeth 
(all worldly) knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the 
fullness of God (good). 

Third, we must know the perfected concept of truth, which 
is to know the life-love-truth-meaning as the full law. That is. 
we must know the Christ interpretation only of every idea in per- 
fect Mind. We must understand its prevailing might as a final 
and satisfactory power of good, to establish a law of irrevocable 
and unquenchable judgment among people. 



62 The Christ-Law 

Isa. 10:17, "And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and 
his Holy One for a flame, and it shall burn and devour his thorns 
and his briars in one day." 

Truth, as the one all-inclusive law of perfect being, must 
contain every perfect idea entity, which is an individual and in- 
tegral part of Mind ; and as a unit of truth each idea must express 
perfection as completion, to represent some particular phase of 
Mind's being. This phase or meaning is given in the Christ-law 
of life-action, love-substance, truth-perfection, and by nothing 
else. 

These constitute all perfect being, and is our sure foundation 
in spiritual progress; it is the ultimate attainment of all true 
knowledge as knowing constructive good in every phase of God's 
law of love. 

Truth is the perfection of constructive being, one thing of 
perfection, which is unassailable and indestructible. 

Truth, as the sum total of anything, is all that there is about 
it, and this testifies of one complete and perfect being only. 

Truth must be perfectly and exactly like itself, neither more 
than true nor less than truth, for perfection is the highest concept. 

Truth to be true must of its own self-dominion prevail against 
every opponent and maintain the law, by this fact may we know 
truth. 

Truth as principle is a law of one right, which is forever the 
one same state of perfect being. 

In John 1:1 we read, "In the beginning was the Word, and 
the Word was with God, and the Word was God." 

The principle of truth as every perfect idea entity, which 
is a state of spiritual consciousness with the one Christ-meaning 
of life, love, truth, is the Word; also that which was with God. 
It is God because the Christ and God are one; and the power 
of Spirit giving the life-love-truth-meaning and being to the 
word, must be God. 

John 17:17, Jesus said, "Sanctify them through thy truth, thy 
word is truth." Then truth, as a law of perfection, must be the 
Word. 



Truth 63 

John 9-39, "For judgment (the prevailing of one right) I am 
come into this world, that they which see not, might see; and 
they which see might be made blind." I am come that all people 
who do not understand the one law of life-love-truth-meaning of 
things as all and good, might understand, and that those who 
think they understand sense suggestion of material conditions 
might realize that they do not, because they cannot be thought, 
known or understood. 

Christ, as the light of the world, as the supreme law of per- 
fection, stirs up a fury of error in mortal man, because of its 
uncompromising way, and demand that we follow one truth, 
which is perfect. This flame of fire, as the law of absolute 
truth, burns up our errors and purifies our thoughts, when we 
become willing to have it, but those who think to compromise 
with truth will not get their healing. Moses did not go into 
Egypt to compromise with Pharoah, but to prevail and deliver 
the children of Israel. Truth comes into our consciousness in 
the same way, to prevail. 

No thoughtful person will deny the existence of truth, but as 
to just what truth is, and to just what it is applicable, is a ques- 
tion about which we may differ. If we do, then one of us must 
be wrong, for truth is ever one state of perfect being. Truth is 
the perfect word of God, the perfect state of Mind's being, and 
is expressed to us in an infinite law or principle of ideas, which 
is a law of perfection as absolute constructive good. Truth 
cannot be two things, as truth and its opposite evil, that is, 
like itself in perfection and unlike itself in imperfection also. 
For things which are not equal to each other cannot both be 
equal to one perfect truth; therefore, constructive good and de- 
structive evil, because they oppose each other, cannot both be 
equal to perfection in one truth. 

We realize that good represents perfect being, while evil rep- 
resents not an entity of something, but the absence of perfect 
good, or death, as a lack of being or nothingness. Again we 
know that there is no imperfect truth, for truth is alone true 
in perfection. From this it is easily seen that truth as perfec- 
tion is no part of imperfection, and hence is not applicable to 



6'4 The Christ-Law 

things of imperfection, such as the destructive appearances of 
material conditions. 

In John 7:24, Jesus said, "Judge not according to the appear- 
ances, but judge righteous judgment." 

That is, judge according to the perfect law of one righteous- 
ness, and not according to the testimony of the deceiving senses, 
and deceiving because imperfect, for no imperfection can mani- 
fest perfection. 

This law of righteousness as truth-perfection, which is given 
to us through the testimony of the Spirit of truth, reveals this 
fact to our conscience ; that no amount of declaring that 2 times 2 
is 5, or that it is not 5, will ever teach us that it is 4. But that 
the declaring of the truth alone, that it is 4, will give us the 
desired consciousness. 

In Matt. 7:16, Jesus said, "Ye shall know them by their 
fruits; do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles?" 

Ye shall know them by the way in which they have been declar- 
ing with active mind, either the things of truth or of error. 
For, as we declare states of conscience in mind, are we either 
good or evil, according to the intent of our hearts, because the 
things which we declare those do we manifest outwardly. 

We cannot gather good things as good states of consciousness 
from the thorns of an evilly-trained conscience ; and never do any 
evil thoughts manifest any good results. 

In Matt. 12:37, Jesus further states this fact in a more forc- 
ible way, for he said, "By thy words thou shalt be justified, 
and by thy words shalt thou be condemned." 

Even as we declare the perfect words of the Christ-law of 
righteousness, and therein learn to know it, are we justified by 
the fruits thereof. As for the other imperfect thoughts, which 
so persistently assail us, their profit is condemnation and noth- 
ingness. 

But we have this consolation, that for every perfect thought 
known and established in consciousness, there is an evil one, 
and may be many of them put out of consciousness forever; be- 
cause when we know truth and once give our allegiance to it, 



Truth 65 

then do we have dominion over its evil opponent and it cannot 
prevail against us. 

Truth is one of the three powers of Mind which serve as our 
dominion, when we have gained their consciousness, as nothing 
can prevail against the power of truth to make it anything other 
than its one perfect being, and as we build our thoughts in perfect 
harmony with this state of being will we prevail through its 
power. 

To know perfection is a mighty and convincing state of 
knowledge, and it cannot be denied, neither overcome, for it is 
altogether face evident. 

When we have completed anything it represents perfection, 
and when it works, as in a machine, the act of working is repre- 
sentative of life-action, according to law, and cannot be denied, 
for when we have perfection in action, surely we have some 
substance as representative of love or good. 

Herein we have the three states of being, which compel us to 
know, for they cannot be denied; they are present to vouch for 
themselves, and proceed to do so in such a convincing way that 
there is no argument. 

These states of material conditions are known to us as states 
of conscious realization of mind, that is, we realize the law as 
being real and true, because of its three proofs of life-action, 
truth-perfection and love-substance. This law can be applied to 
states of spiritual being just as readily as to conditions of mat- 
ter, and even more so. 

Take for instance the state of patience, which is a realized 
conscience, and when expressed will demand action, the acting 
of which will prove its good, and therein reveal the love; and 
the action in love will produce the perfection of good, wherein we 
have the three powers, which compel us to know, because we 
cannot deny them. 



66 



The Christ-Law 



The Comparison of Truth Ideas and Falsehood Imaginations 



Truth 

False- 
hood 



Intelligence 
Ignorance 



•{ Harmony 
Discord 



Principle 
Chaos 



Understanding 
Stupidity 



( Intuition 
■j Receptivity 
( Experience 



Obtuseness 

Apathy 

Latency 

Indecision 



„ . i Recognition Indecisio 

. Consciousness ) Inter pretation Inaction 
Matter / Realization Perplexity 



Creation 
Destruction 



Peace 
Offense 



i Unity 
' Division 



Freedom 
Bondage 

Science 
Duality 

Law 

Anarchy 



Order 
Confusion 



Revelation 

Construction 

Goodness 

Trust 

Quietude 

Amity 

j Oneness 
Union 
[Agreement 

Liberty 

Rejoicing 

Health 



Conceilment 

Separation 

Carnality 

Suspicion 
Agitation 
Animosity 

Divorce 

Schism 

Contradiction 

Obligation 

Sorrow 

Disease 



Instruction Egotism 

Enlightenment Vacuity 
System Irregularity 



i Organization 
Standard 
Government 

( Method 
■\ Regulation 
( Fulfillment 



Shiftlessness 

Theory 

Lawlessness 

Carelessness 

Superficiality 

Procrastination 



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TRUTH, the Perfection of Mind, versus FALSEHOOD, as 

a Mortal Concept. 

At the start of this analysis we discover that truth, as soul 
testimony, and falsehood, as sense testimony, are opposed to each 
other and therefore cannot both be real and true, that is, equal 
to one perfect truth. 

We already know that a falsehood has the substance of noth- 
ingness, and is devoid of either being or meaning; we also know 
that a lie is not truth, and that truth is all that has being and 
meaning. That is, that the truth about it is all that there is 
about it. 

But we do not know, because we have not as yet learned, that 
all mortal imagination is false expression, or expression of false- 
hood, it is false because opposed to truth as a law of perfection; 
for mortal imagination of both good and evil cannot conform in 
any way to one right or truth. 

The one way- out of this dilemma is to learn the expression of 
the right or perfect ideas only, which are indeed our states of 
spiritual being, and apart from which there is no safety or 
reality as being. 

Our first effort is to gain an ability to discern mortality as all 
falsity ; because it is the seat of the testimony of right and wrong. 
We must learn to ignore the concept of wrong, and give our allegi- 
ance to the right alone. It becomes absolutely necessary to com- 
pare the right with the wrong, in order to definitely separate 
them; we must measure the two together as truth and falsehood, 
for the express purpose of witnessing the truth prevail over the 
falsehood^ so that we may be convinced of the power of truth. 
For we are to know once for all time that the good is all power 
and that which we must follow. 

Falsity at once loses its presence and power when brought 
into the presence of truth, for this is a law of Spirit, and cannot 
be overcome. Evil suggestion, which is no more than sugges- 
tion, may seem to prevail for a while, provided it comes not near 
truth; but all of the evil things to which we have given power, 
clothed with a symbol, and then honored with presence from our 



68 The Christ-Law 

storehouse of active thought, must be reclaimed, destroyed out of 
consciousness, and their falsity, placed at its proper value of 
nothingness, that it may vanish away and lose itself. 

There are not two opposing realities, as a true universe and 
a wrong universe, for that which is cannot be absent, therefore 
if truth is all, there cannot be any falsity; also if the universe 
is spiritual there cannot be a material universe. Hence one of 
these concepts, as a state of consciousness, must be purely an 
imagination. As falsity has no real being there can be no such 
thing as falsity, which has entity as a law, with power in its own 
name. But it is different when we behold truth, for there we 
find a reality as an entity with power in its own name, and it 
can prove its right to its claim, not once in a while, but always 
without exception. 

Now, it is the object of this section of the chapter to separate 
the individual states of truth from their opposing falsities, to 
which we have thoughtlessly given a name or symbol, with a 
meaning utterly foreign to the one Christ meaning of life-action, 
love-substance, truth-perfection ; for* we must withhold both the 
name and the meaning of evil, that we may cease to give our 
allegiance to things which are not. 

Falsehood,, as the lie of mortality, is the epitome of deception, 
and is not wholly overcome while we are in this state of experience 
of the flesh as something. Nevertheless, we can begin to make 
our progress heavenward, here and now, and climb out of this 
realm of falsity into truth. 

It may seem strange to state that every mortal concept of 
material conditions is a lie or falsity, and false because imper- 
fect; it is imperfect because gained through imperfect senses, 
which are limited wholly to the testimony of one thing as matter. 

It is not intended to wipe out all existence by these statements, 
but to reveal the impotence of the material concepts, as compared 
to the spiritual truth of being, and awaken the reader to the 
fact of false sense interpretations which lead us astray into 
errors and suffering, when we are entitled to the right or spiritual 
interpretation of things which leads into peace and health. But 
to the large majority of people it is an impossible task for them 



Truth 69 

to give a spiritual interpretation to things, and it is because they 
do not know how, nor of just what a spiritual interpretation con- 
sists, but when we understand that a spiritual interpretation is 
giving the Christ-meaning of life-action, love-substance, truth- 
perfection to things, then it is brought down to a tangible point 
which we can grasp and know just what we are doing. 

When we seek to find the life-love-truth-meaning in all things, 
then will we begin to get right and have a sure way to overcome 
all falsity, thereby eliminating those things which beset us with 
confusion. 

We will discover that we cannot give this meaning to anything 
evil and false, and therein will we be shown those things which 
were made by Him who made all things which were made. Those 
things, as states of fury and confusion, sickness and disease, etc., 
which seem to have been made with the others, will vanish away 
before the power of truth known in consciousness. 

When we try to hold a dual concept in consciousness, as of 
good and evil, truth and a lie, right and wrong; we are sure to 
abide in confusion, and there is no help for us as long as we 
continue in this thought, for as long as we recognize them both 
we are not able to know either one with certainty. Therefore, it 
is absolutely essential for us to give up the false sense concepts, 
before we can know truth and prove it to be true. 

We must cease to deal with falsehood in all ways, neither lie 
ourselves, nor understand that others lie to us; we must not be 
offended at the suggestion of falsehood, nor at its appearance 
in material conditions even, but knowing truth, stand firm with- 
out offense demanding its presence and use, as well as its perfect 
manifestation. We must know truth ourselves so well and so 
strong that we do not have to witness the falsity, but simply 
demand, without argument or offense, that the truth be expressed. 

The Truth Table. 

The following table is that which belongs to the realm of 
truth, and is to be committed as the others have been. 



70 The Christ-Law 

Table One. 

The love-substance of Truth equals Righteousness. 
The truth-perfection of Truth equals Principle. 
The life-action of Truth equals Dominion. 

Therefore, the counterparts or developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Truth, in the second revelation of Mind, are 
Righteousness, Principle, Dominion. These ideas represent 
Truth. 

Under these heads of the law are arranged those ideas whose 
individuality is to demonstrate and express the law of Truth. 

It will be noticed that the error thoughts are not considered 
on this last page, for we are supposed to have gotten rid of them 
before coming into the understanding of the truth herein ex- 
pressed. 

This is the third and last chapter of the three on the first reve- 
lation of Mind, as the Christ law of life, love, truth; and it must 
not be overlooked that the association of these three ideas in in- 
finite variation accounts for all real and true language, as well 
as expressed states of spiritual being. We never get away from 
the life-love-truth meaning of things, in the realm of the Christ- 
law. 

To be able to understand and learn to use these tables, as well 
as those which will follow in succeeding chapters, is our one 
aim, for by this ability alone are we to gain our healing power 
through understanding the healing law of the Christ-Mind. 

Truth as the finished state of spiritual expression is the prod- 
uct of life-action and love-substance; truth is therefore active 
substance. 

In the same way that substantial action equals true being does 
active substance equal truth. 

We can substitute any number of ideas as differing phases of 
Mind for these three ideas of basic being, and in this way grow 
and expand in an ever-increasing wealth of knowledge of good. 

It is this knowledge of true being according to the Christ-Mind 
in all of its glory and goodness and purity which is to make us 
free from the falsity of material sense testimony, and its accom- 



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panying confusion of disease because of transgression of the 
Christ-law of infinite good. 

This is that which the Saviour referred to in St. John 8:31-32, 
and it cannot be too firmly fixed in mind that we are to abide 
within the constant expression of this law in order that we may 
know it perfectly and gain skill and ability in its honest use 
and expression. 

Love is the law of the Christ, made active in life, and perfected 
through truth; and we may profit well with these three con- 
cepts: That life and love, action and substance, equals perfect 
truth. Again, love and truth, substance perfected, equals life- 
action. Again, truth and life, perfection in action, equals sub- 
stantial love. 

Truth as the last state of perfect understanding is that which 
is to make us know, and through knowing we are to be made 
free from not knowing, or the abiding in confusion of sense tes- 
timony; therefore in order to be free we are to know, and in the 
following chapters, which are about the nine heads of the law, 
this fact of knowing is further discussed, for each head of the 
law bears upon this subject of law and is intended to elucidate 
the whole in parts, that we may be able to understand. 

If the Christ law is absolute, impersonal and good, as in truth, 
then all law must be absolute in order to have being in truth. 

If truth alone can be understood and is that which alone 
teaches us all that we truthfully know, then the sayings, doings 
and testimony of mortal mind is false and cannot possibly teach 
us anything but error. 

If this is so, then it is high time that we knew the absolute 
Christ-law in its life-love-truth-meaning to use in working out 
our life problems. The mortal declarations of opinions about 
material conditions make it impossible for us to understand abso- 
lute truth; for absolute truth alone is that which can be under- 
stood. 



CHAPTER V. 

OBEDIENCE 

the Life of Love. 

A law of direction for our method of interpretation. 

Our Saviour said "Out of the abundance of the heart the 
mouth speaketh." Every one making an interpretation is com- 
pelled to take it from the abundance of knowledge which they 
have stored up in consciousness from past years of experience, 
either through mortal sense about material conditions or through 
soul experiences with spiritual law, for as a man thinketh in his 
mind so is he obedient in love, serving spiritual law, or disobedi- 
ent in hate, serving the carnal sense-mind — that is, serving the 
law of perfection or imperfection. Therefore the understanding 
of this saying of our Master will help to bring us together on a 
common ground of one right through a perfect law of true in- 
terpretation. It will thereby eliminate that personal egotism so 
often present in those who serve two standards of interpretation 
and because of which they think it a strange thing that their 
neighbor does not see it right, that is, just as they do. 

It therefore becomes us all to recognize the one perfect Christ- 
law which has one spiritual interpretation and understanding for 
all things, in which we are harmonized through obedience as the 
life of love. 

When there are expressed two opinions on any one subject 
they must differ because there are two, of which one must be in 
error, for two differing opinions cannot both be equal to one 
perfect truth. At this point we ask by what means do we get 
our information which is to be used for our interpretations and 
which must necessarily become our obedience or disobedience? 
We soon discover that we have two ways of receiving experiences, 
those of material sensations on the brain and those of the spiritual 



Obedience 73 

soul in conscience; and neither one of these can, nor does, under- 
stand the other, for they are opposites. 

The first one of material sensations on the brain is a testimony 
of the everchanging and imperfect conditions of matter; those 
appearances as suggestions of true being which come to us from 
outer darkness as the confusion of matter. They cannot be 
understood, because there is no perfection in them to understand; 
hence they must all be the work of sense temptation to disobedi- 
ence. 

The reason of this is because the mortal sense organ, as our 
body, is a receiving station for all kind of sensations and is so 
constructed that it receives and records upon the brain indiscrimi- 
nately the testimony of good and evil alike and is helpless to 
resist either the one or the other as a sensation. Herein disobedi- 
ence ensues because of conflicting testimony, that of perfection 
and of imperfection also. Hence all testimony from outer dark- 
ness must come as a suggestion only and not as a convincing 
truth through the soul. 

This testimony goes through a process of filtering through 
reason, which eliminates all impurities, leaving us with that 
which conforms to absolute law. 

The second way of our receiving testimony which is to be used 
by us as a means of interpretation is through the word of the 
spirit of truth, given to our spirit in the secret place of the Most 
High. This testimony is one of spiritual perfection as an infalli- 
ble state of perfect being in peace, love and joy, which is to be 
our obedience as the life of love. 

Our understanding from the spirit of truth does not consider 
a condition of matter, but has to do only with our obedient action 
in love. It is a sufficient guide to cover all our needs here in this 
experience of the flesh. It takes the place of the false mortal 
concepts and rules with complete power, for its testimony to us 
is certain, satisfying and final in every way. 

These two witnesses oppose each other in their testimony of 
destructive disobedience and constructive obedience; now, both 
cannot be equal to one state of perfect existence in truth, and it 
is easily seen that the one which prevails is the one with power 



74 The Christ-Law 

to manifest something as constructive good. And now comes 
this question: How is it possible for anyone who has spent time, 
money and energy in gathering together the fury of sensational- 
ism and having taken into consciousness all manner of material 
experiences — as sense attractions and distractions, of the things 
of disobedience which come from the realm of outer darkness — to 
take therefrom an interpretation which requires a soul experi- 
ence within the secret place of the Most High? This is why 
Jesus said that out of the abundance of that store of sense con- 
cepts as the things of disobedience or from the spiritual under- 
standing in the soul of obedience are we obliged to take for an 
interpretation. 

Our Master went further to explain this subject to us, for he 
said "Judge not according to the appearances, but judge right- 
eous judgment." 

Judge not according to the suggestion of appearances which 
come to us from the realm of outer darkness, as that which leads 
through sense to disobedience; but judge according to the law 
of right which is given unto us within the secret place of the 
Most High, that we may abide in obedience. 

Again, Jesus said that we should know the truth, and that this 
knowledge of truth should make us free from these sense sug- 
gestions of imperfection, provided that we continued in his per- 
fection. 

It is easily seen that a person who abides in the concept of 
good and evil, right and wrong, can have no part in the Christ 
consciousness, as the constructive good of life-action, love-sub- 
stance, truth-perfection. 

This is why we are disobedient people and criticise each other 
with hate and intolerance. It is because we do not know the one 
perfect law of the Christ as a soul experience, but are satisfied 
with an appearance of this law in which is no power or reality; 
and not until we come together in the one law will we be free in 
truth. Then shall we be free from hate and opposition as the 
sting of offense because of two standards, as the false sense stand- 
ard and the truth standard also. Our differences come about 



Obedience 75 

from our differing interpretations, which must constitute our 
obedience or disobedience. 

Again our Master said that we could not serve two masters, 
that is, abide by two standards of interpretation, those of sense 
testimony and those of soul testimony, for service to both would 
be treason to both and service to neither. 

His command is that we abide in righteous judgment, as the 
understanding of obedience, the life of love. 

When we see an angry neighbor whipping his son to make 
him obedient we know that the son's obedience to an angry father 
is disobedience to a law of love; for love cometh not from hate 
as the force exerted through material sense testimony, but from 
spiritual loveliness. This evil suggestion of material force was 
the false sense interpretation supplied by the father because he 
did not know that obedience was the life of love. If both he and 
the son had known this fact they would both have come together 
in one thought and there would have been no cause for material 
force. 

If our neighbor knows not the law of active love as obedience 
from actual experience of having gained the power therein, then 
he is at the mercy of sense suggestion and compelled to wallow 
in his confusion until right and love reveal to him the light of 
the perfect law of the Christ, uncontaminated with mortal sense 
opinions, beliefs, customs, social demands, etc. 

Obedience as the life of love is revealed unto us as a soul ex- 
perience within the secret place of conscience, where actual and 
absolute knowledge of the spiritual kingdom is given to all those 
who enter therein, for obedience is the open door into the kingdom 
of heaven or harmony. 

Obedience is the constant living of loveliness which leads us 
into a true concept of the nine heads of the law, and without it 
no progress could be made in the law's expression, for it is every- 
where necessary. The power of Mind in obedience is that of life- 
action, and is that which will give the will of good momentum, 
and carry us through every error or temptation that we may 
not fail to express loveliness. 

Obedience as the life of love is the first head of the law and 



76 The Christ-Law 

the name of the first point of the Star. Obedience is an open 
door through which all may enter into spiritual understanding 
and gain the kingdom of heaven, which is the realm of true and 
perfected harmony as true love. 

Obedience the life of love is the first law which we are to learn ; 
this act of life in Mind exercised upon the substance love requires 
that within our hearts must abide a wellspring of loveliness, giv- 
ing forth thoughts of gratitude and acts of charity and patience. 

We must first discover the Christ meaning of obedience; loyalty 
is its truth or perfected state; service is its action; and loveliness 
is its foundation of constructive good. 

Loyalty as the finished state of true allegiance to the one law 
of supreme perfection expresses obedience in its truth concept, 
and is a state of realized spiritual conscience into which material 
things do not enter, for they cannot be considered in the same 
way. 

But how can we be really loyal to anything which we do not 
know with certainty, as, for instance, this supreme law of per- 
fection? If we do not know the law, then what are we loyal to 
when we express this state of being loyal? Loyalty in its true 
sense is an absolute allegiance and fidelity given forth because 
of having perfect faith, as that faith of knowing. This faith of 
knowing is that which we can surely trust, and comes from ex- 
perience with good which is manifested by obedience. 

Obedience as the life of love in living loveliness is applicable 
to all of God's creations, but if we depart from them and try to 
give our obedience to things mortal we are compelled to rest in 
fear, because these things of mortal origin cannot command our 
trust, neither convince nor satisfy us in any way. The Christ- 
law alone does this, and to it alone we will learn to give our alle- 
giance. 

Our one disobedience is in not possessing a loving heart, to 
be indifferent, and to ignore good things, and not to walk in 
the law is our disobedience to the Christ-law of love. Disobedi- 
ence to the Christ-law must not be confounded with disloyalty to 
some mortal who demands that we follow his dictation without 
question ; for when mortals exalt themselves above the law, claim- 



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ing the right to make other laws and then demanding obedience 
to them, we can but discover two laws and abide in fear, for we 
have no faith in the laws of impotent and imperfect mortals. 

When we begin to be obedient because of our perfect faith 
in loyalty to the law, then we find the substance of this loyalty 
present in the form of a desire and intent to serve Christ. Our 
active life-action must be guided to some purpose in loveliness, 
that we may serve that to which we have given our loyalty. To 
serve the law is to do the will of the law, which is to express 
every perfect idea in loveliness, for this is alone true obedience 
and the object of this particular head of the one law. 

When we abide within the concepts of peace, love and joy, then 
are we obedient, regardless of the demands of mortals. 

Now, just how are we to learn to be obedient and thereby ful- 
fill the demands of the Christ-law? 

First let us open our hearts to the testimony of Spirit to our 
spirit and listen to the voice of truth within our own conscience 
telling us of the one law of perfection. We must abide therein 
until we can trust this testimony, because we cannot rightfully 
deny or oppose it. Herein shall we discover our faith of knowing 
which is our loyalty, and by accepting this law of known certanty 
are we led into the consciousness of service as the ministration 
of diligent adoration, which is a desire to live in this good and 
sure place of love. We shall then discover that we are lovely 
and lovable and also obedient to the law. 

Our three stages of life-action in the second development of 
Mind are as follows : Beginning with obedience, we find ourselves 
buried in mortality and living in the crude physical state. As 
we turn from this mortal concept we make our first effort to gain 
spirituality, and it is ushered in through beginning to be obedi- 
ent. When we have gained some degree of obedience we dis- 
cover that we have another quality coming into prominence, 
which is dominion, the second stage of life-action. It is on a 
higher plane of being as the mental, and from our concept and 
use of obedience and dominion we are prepared to understand the 
third stage of the life of life or spiritual being. 

Now, just how are we to study the Star, that we may learn 



78 The Christ-Law 

to abide in the thought expressions of the law which is given 
therein and also gain a spiritual perception of the Christ's per- 
fection ? 

By unveiling and realizing the truth about that which we al- 
ready know and through applying the truth perceived in one 
case to that of another, that our eyes may be opened and that, 
seeing, we may see and understand. 

We cannot deny the ever-presence of the infinite and supreme 
law of the Christ's perfection, which is a spiritual presence mani- 
festing every possible state of perfect being — within which we 
live and apart from which we have no life at all. With this fact 
firmly fixed within our conscience, let us consider some of the 
perfect idea entities which we already known to be perfect states 
of being in Mind, as, for instance 2 times 2 equals 4. This is a 
perfect fact of the law, and because we are children of Mind hav- 
ing an ability to think and to express this fact, then we are cer- 
tainly under the tuition of the law alone, which teaches its off- 
spring all that it is to know through a power of spiritual prevail- 
ing or convincing facts of action, substance, perfection. 

Now, if the truth of this idea of 2 times 2 equals 4 was not 
within the law we could not have known it, for we could not have 
repeated it mentally; therefore for the reason that it is truth we 
can express it, and we must take notice of these facts of our 
expression: First, its perfection only can be expressed; second, 
that the act of expression brings the light of knowing into con- 
sciousness; third, that when once possessed it satisfies and is 
sufficient for every demand made upon it. 

All that we can know about it is expressed in our soul reflec- 
tion of its exact and absolute image, which it presents to us 
through the mind; it always uses the one means of life-action, 
love-substance, truth-perfection to accomplish this fact of teach- 
ing us. 

Its power of being as a fact of the law has an inherent ability 
to teach us and instruct us of itself, and our knowing is dependent 
upon our honest allegiance to this law of perfection. It is because 
we have already given our absolute allegiance unqualifiedly to 
this fact of Mind that nothing can turn us from it. If we had 



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not given our perfect allegiance to this fact of 2 time -2 equals 4 
we could not have known it, for to know means to find God, good, 
and give our allegiance to good. 

It must be an honest intent of the soul directed to the things 
of the law for the purpose of understanding them, wherein we 
will surely get right. 

If this is true about one idea of the law it must be true about 
every idea of the law, for there is one law of perfection only. 

Having gone over this process of reasoning with an idea which 
we know, let us repeat it and apply the same reasoning to an- 
other kind of an idea; and, turning to the first point of the Star, 
we find that loyalty is the truth of obedience. Our effort must 
now be to gain a clear consciousness of just what loyalty as a 
state of spiritual being is. No suggestion as a power from man 
can compel us to know, but the power of the ever-present Spirit 
of truth, which testifies within conscience of absolute law, can. 
When we look into the law's presence and behold therein the 
manifestation of its loyalty to us, and that in perfect obedience 
it rules all things in the universe without divergence then we 
recognize that it is all for our good, and we come in touch with our 
one instructor as the true law of the Christ-righteousness. 

We get our true concept of just what loyalty is by witnessing 
the law's manifestation of loyalty to us, and our loyalty must be 
that of the law's repeated, for there is none other. Now, when 
once found and perceived we cannot help giving our perfect al- 
legiance to the loyalty of the law, because of its perfection and 
goodness ; and soon we find that we are loyal to the law and 
its goodness. This allegiance is our knowing and is our healing 
power of spiritual perception, therefore when we pray without 
knowing just what we are praying, that is, realize the allegiance 
which we are declaring, no wonder that we get such confusing 
results. 

Once coming into touch with the law and perceiving its power 
to prevail, we discover something that we can absolutely trust; 
but we can trust it only in just so far as we know it. This trust 
in its knowing is our perfected faith, that faith which has the 



80 The Christ-Law 

dominion to do all things, wherein nothing shall be impossible 
unto us. 

It must be realized that this faith as allegiance or loyalty 
to the law abides in conscience, within the secret place of the 
Most High, and that mortality is not considered in any way 
or capacity, for this allegiance must be given absolutely to the 
Christ-law alone or not at all. 

In the following verses this fact is made very plain and without 
excuse or compromise, for it means that we must be absolutely 
loyal to the Christ alone if we would understand and gain the 
faith which is to carry the power of dominion in its use. 

John 5 'A3, "I am come in my Father's name (in the name of 
the absolute and supreme law of perfection) and ye receive me 
not: If another shall come in his own name, him ye shall re- 
ceive." 

Is it not even so? For do not mortals set themselves up as 
leaders and demand that we follow them ? They blazon their own 
names abroad and establish material laws of coercion to rule 
through fear and lay it all before as as the work of the Christ, 
for they would divide our allegiance to the absolute Christ-law 
with themselves that they might receive some of his glory. 

In verse 44 this saying and teaching of the law is made more 
plain and definite, for it reads, "How can ye believe, (have faith 
in the law through understanding) which receive honor one of 
another, (strive to obey coercive mortal laws and the absolute 
Christ-law also), and seek not the honor that cometh from God 
only?" 

This is a subject which we must all think over carefully and 
find out just what our consciousness says about it, for therein 
will we get the truth and be made to know just where we stand, 
if we oppose conscience we will know it immediately because 
of fear, but when we lay down all allegiance to any other god 
but God we will be at peace in heart. 

It is not that which is declared unto us by mortals which 
makes us know, but the infallible testimony of the Spirit of truth 
within our own conscience alone, for all mortals are under the 
law, not the law under mortals and their self will. 



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81 



The Beginning of How to Know. 

That which follows is a comparison of the good and evil 
thoughts for the purpose of separating them one from the other, 
so that we may realize the nothingness of the one of evil and the 
allness of the one of good. It is absolutely necessary that we 
understand why these evil thoughts should be discarded, and 
that their whole nature and intent is one of destruction, not to 
others, but to us, to each individual who indulges in their expres- 
sion. 

We must be made to perceive the utter uselessness and result 
of death which comes from their use by closely comparing them 
with the good, for in this way is conscience awakened through 
the attractiveness of the good. No one would knowingly choose 
a counterfeit dollar bill in place of a good one when given the op- 
portunity to compare them and discover the difference, neither 
would they choose the thoughts which work death instead of life 
upon us when given the opportunity to understand one from the 
other. 

These comparisons in all of the chapters are intended to reveal 
a way or method of procedure only, to which all may add other 
reasons to suit themselves in an effort to gain a clear concept 
of the allness of the good. 



A Table of Comparison of Good and Evil Ideas in the 

Law of Obedience 



Obedience 
Opposition 



Loyalty 
Treason 



Service 
Subversion 



Loveliness 
Meanness 



( Faith 
■J Fidelity 
( Allegiance 

{Ministration 
Diligence 
Adoration 

( Gratitude 
- Charity 
( Patience 



Doubt 

Enmity 
Antagonism 

Enticement 

Indolence 

Contempt 

Despite 

Malignity 

Petulance 



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OBEDIENCE, the Life of Love, versus OPPOSITION, as a 

Death Concept. 

Opposition is certainly a mortal concept of death's presence in 
destruction. When we express it or even strive to we do not 
bring anything into being for the glory of good, but rather 
blind ourselves to that which has being in good. The law of 
love does not oppose anything, for opposition is not within its 
nature. Opposition as a mortal concept of self right and as 
something worthy of recognition is utterly apart from the Christ- 
law of one spiritual right. 

Our Master said "resist not evil," that is, with mortal force of 
evil, but to turn from it to the law of love in obedience, and that 
it will become nothing as soon as we take from it our active 
thought. 

He said again, "resist evil," meaning for us to turn from it 
unto obedience, to stand firm in the expression of love, and it will 
flee from us. He suffered not the evil to even speak, but mani- 
fested love and destroyed the error at once, and it was because 
he knew. 

We must not forget to declare unto evil that there is no life, 
love, truth in it; for the law of good has already overcome evil 
and love constitutes all being in perfection. The mortal imagina- 
tion of more than all is self conceit and an unthinkable thing; 
therefore we must persistently abide within the law and cease 
to express the evil concept of opposition. 

LOYALTY, the Truth of Obedience, versus TREASON, as 

a False Concept. 

Treason is that mortal concept of self right which is no part 
of the perfect law of loveliness, although it claims to be able to 
stand in opposition to the right and honor of law. We must not 
be deceived by any such claim and be made to suffer in conse- 
quence, but through an acknowledgment of loyalty to the law of 
right and loveliness be led into peace and joy. 

We must realize that God's law is loyal to us in every way and 
cannot express treason, hence this concept of treason must be a 



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sense of suggestion of the lack of loyalty in us, and there to 
work death upon us. 

SERVICE, the Life of Obedience, versus SUBVERSION, 
as a Death Concept. 

Subversion is a false mortal concept claiming ability to lead 
astray into unlawful paths and ruin; for it would turn us aside 
from serving the one perfect law of righteousness and mould 
our conscience in the image of evil. Our heart's love in service 
to the one law must be firm and solid, not to be led astray by 
this subtle concept of subversion. 

Evil would subvert our attention from service to the law, that 
it might hide the good from us and darken our understanding 
in destruction. 

LOVELINESS, the Love of Obedience, versus MEANNESS, 

as a Hate Concept. 

Meanness is utter blindness to the spiritual law of good, it is 
the foolish and dead mortal consciousness running riot within 
its own realm of death, it represents the ignorant, helpless and 
hopeless mortal wallowing in its own darkness. 

This manifestation of the beast-mind as our mortal sense mind 
gives forth no good to anything, neither does it express any life- 
action, for it is utterly dead and void in its effort at expression. 

Our effort to choose between this mortal concept of meanness 
and that of the living beauty and peace of loveliness should not 
bother us much, for the result of either one is at once made mani- 
fest. 

FAITH, the Love of Loyalty, versus DOUBT, as a Hate 

Concept. 

Doubt is mortal confusion because of impotence, and is also 
a mortal imagination that nothingness is something, that absence 
is presence. 



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Doubt is not something which has a meaning, but is mortal 
confusion from not understanding, hence a dead concept in noth- 
ingness. Doubt is the result of a superstitious mortal conscious- 
ness which has listened to the evil suggestion of material condi- 
tions. 

Faith comes from absolute knowing only, Faith is a state of 
perfect being as an entity with meaning, and must not be con- 
founded with that blind, mortal, so-called faith which is but fear 
and doubt because of not knowing love, which alone will cause 
fear to vanish away. 

FIDELITY, the Truth of Loyalty, versus ENMITY, as a 

False Concept. 

Enmity is caused by mortal confusion and is a result of in- 
jured selfishness. When we depart from the law of love in which 
we receive the protection of good we are thrown upon our own 
resources of imagination, which result in confusion and death 
expressions, wherein we become afraid and this fear is enmity 
in opposition to the law of fidelity. 

Enmity never yet manifested any good and never will, for, 
being in opposition to good, as fidelity to the law, it cannot do so. 

ALLEGIANCE, the Life of Loyalty, versus ANTAGON- 
ISM, as a Death Concept. 

Antagonism is a wilful opposition to good and right, because 
good and right will not compromise with selfishness and mortal 
will. There is no excuse admissible for the desertion of the per- 
fect law, and we are sure to receive our punishment in darkness 
and blindness to peace and good. 

We are all commanded to walk before the law and to become 
perfect therein, and when we purposely step aside for the mortal 
or man-made laws, thinking that therein we can gain more of that 
which pleases us, we receive of this law its one gift of fear, which 
is called antagonism. 

Allegiance to the Christ-law is our way of escape from this 
death concept and its sure destruction. 



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MINISTRATION, the Truth of Service, versus ENTICE- 
MENT, as a False Concept. 

Enticement is the love of mortal sensation which seeks to 
please self instead of God in the ministration of His love. In 
finding self or selfishness we find nothingness and abide in fear, 
for every mortal imagination of evil is an enticement to fear. 
This blinds every one afflicted with it to the ministration of love, 
which it is our duty to express. 

Enticement loses its power through suggestion when we learn 
of the Christ-law because of the attractive power of the good 
therein. Ministration is the command of the Saviour, and we 
must not be enticed away because of mortal sense indulgences as 
sensationalism. 

DILIGENCE, the Life of Service, versus INDOLENCE, 

as a Death Concept. 

Indolence is such an aggressive error of nothingness, such an 
evil suggestion to rob us of our life-action, that it needs little 
exposure to open our eyes to its fury and destructive intent. 
It certainly is no part of growth and progress and cannot give 
forth good because utterly inactive and dead in its purpose. It 
is one of those stupid mortal states of death consciousness which 
is believed to be a state of being and worthy of practice because 
it is easy, but we must awake from this thing of death which 
holds so many of us in its grasp of impotence. 

Diligence will soon reveal this error and destroy its intent. 

ADORATION, the Life of Service, versus CONTEMPT, 

as a Hate Concept. 

Contempt is an exalted self-consciousness in which there is not 
a shadow of the Christliness of the law. If our neighbor differs 
with us it is because we do not both know the one Christ-law of 
love, for when we exalt the law with adoration for it, we are sure 
to lose our concept of contempt, for it will be swallowed up in 
the realization of love. 



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This imaginary state of being is not being, but death personi- 
fied in a hateful mortal consciousness ; this thing we must eschew 
persistently that it does not overcome us, for contempt is a very 
subtle error. 



GRATITUDE, the Life of Holiness, versus DESPITE, 

as a Death Concept. 

Despite is akin to meanness and malice, and is expressed by a 
mortal consciousness utterly darkened to the love which is God. 
It is so deeply buried in the fear of hate that it is hopelessly 
blind and dead. 

Its whole intent of expression is that to produce nothingness 
as inaction, for it would even bite itself in an effort to kill some- 
thing. We cannot afford to lend our sacred thought-action unto 
this error, but must be busy giving forth gratitude to God for 
having been delivered from its darkness, through knowing how 
to express the law of love. 

We must learn to look despite straight in the face, with an un- 
flinching heart's love and prevail against it at all times. 



CHARITY, the Love of Loveliness, versus MALIGNITY, 

as a Hate Concept. 

Malignity is a mortal concept of right to condemn, behind 
which we find ourselves hiding in order to express some of the 
malignity within us. We must arise from our blindness and 
know that the law is infallible and able to stand against us, 
therefore we must exalt the law above our own selfish desire to 
condemn and express a will of malice. We cannot harbor this 
concept of death in consciousness and allow it to gnaw away our 
understanding of love, for charity is the attitude of the law to- 
ward us, and we must be obedient in its expression as children 
of God. All condemnation and criticism must be swallowed up in 
thoughts of charity. 



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PATIENCE, the Truth of Loveliness, versus PETU- 
LANCE, as a False Concept. 

Petulance is a subtle hidden thread of selfishness which is 
capable of bursting into a flame of fire as an evil intent of de- 
struction. Petulance is mortal egotism and self-conceit and hin- 
ders us from seeing the way of life, love, truth expressed in the 
Christ-law. 

Now death concepts in opposition to the one of Obedience are 
those which keep us from getting a start in the way of right 
thought, that we may enter into the kingdom of heaven and learn 
the law of love. 

How to Know Obedience. 

How can I learn to use and know the power for good which is 
in the head of the law of Obedience, thereby gaining an ability 
to overcome every evil temptation which suggests disobedience? 

First, by knowing obedience as a soul expression of the Christ- 
law of one constructive good, and learn thereby that the special 
office of this head of the law is active loveliness which casteth 
out all fear. 

Second, by understanding that life-action, love-substance, 
truth-perfection are the powers of mind which fulfill, compel 
and seal our knowing of one constructive good as all and final. 

Third, by committing the following tables so as to have this 
knowledge present within consciousness whenever there is need 
to use its power against an evil suggestion. 

And now a word about the tables of the Star. The object of 
them is distinctly to give a complete Christ-meaning of life-love- 
truth in association with every thought as a state of spiritual 
being; without which there is no complete thought. This is 
necessary in order to be able to understand the one spiritual 
meaning, for it is not possible to give our perfect allegiance to 
anything and know it, without this one life-love-truth meaning 
of the Christ-perfection. 

This fact is the strength of the law as portrayed by the Star, 
and the full meaning of an idea is given in the following as an 
illustration : 



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The truth perfection of active obedience equals love's substan- 
tial loyalty. Herein is the complete statement of a complete 
state of being expressed. It can be perfectly understood and 
spiritually perceived, accepted in conscience, and our allegiance 
given to it, which is to constitute our knowing loyalty as a state 
of good and perfect being. 

From this it may be seen that every true idea of mind is an 
association or related effect of life-love-truth meanings, for 
which are substituted infinite ideas in our attainment of wisdom. 
These constitute our spiritual being uncontaminated with impo- 
tent and imperfect mortality. 

The following pages should be studied in conjunction with the 
diagram of the Star of Bethlehem. 

The Tables in the First Point of the Star of Obedience: 

Table One. 

The life-action of love-substance equals truth's perfect Obedi- 
ence. 

Table Two. 

The truth-perfection of active Obedience equals love's sub- 
stantial Loyalty. 

The life-action of active Obedience equals life's active Service. 

The love-substance of active Obedience equals truth's perfect 
Loveliness. 

Therefore, the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Obedience, in the third revelation of Mind, are 
Loyalty, Service, Loveliness. These three ideas represent Obedi- 
ence. 

Table Three. 

The love-substance of perfect Loyalty equals life's active 
Faith. 

The truth-perfection of perfect Loyalty equal's truth's per- 
fect Fidelity. 

The life-action of perfect Loyalty equal's love's substantial 
Allegiance. 



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Therefore, the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Loyalty in the fourth revelation of Mind are 
Faith, Fidelity, Alegiance. These three ideas represent Loyalty. 

Table Four. 

The truth-perfection of active Service equals love's substantial 
Ministration. 

The life-action of active Service equals life's active Diligence. 

The love-substance of active Service equal's truth's perfect 
Adoration. 

Therefore, the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Service, in the fourth revelation of Mind, are 
Ministration, Diligence, Adoration. These three ideas represent 
Service. 

Table Five. 

The life-action of substantial Loveliness equal's truth's per- 
fect Gratitude. 

The love-substance of substantial Loveliness equals love's sub- 
stantial Charity. 

The truth-perfection of substantial Loveliness equal's life's 
active Patience. 

Therefore, the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Loveliness, in the fourth revelation of Mind, 
are Gratitude, Charity, Patience. These three ideas represent 
Loveliness. 

The preceding tables reveal the power of the Christ-law 
which compels us to know the good alone and be healed therein 
from imperfect sense interpretations of Obedience. The knowing 
of these as a soul experience will deliver us from every evil con- 
cept which attacks us in this point of the Star. For evil cannot pro- 
duce at our demand the substance of the law of life, love, truth, 
but is forced to vanish away. 

A Way to Study the Tables. 

After we have come out from among the evil concepts with a 
heart full of the allness of the good, and stand ready to walk in 
the presence of Christ and his perfect law, then we can take 



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up the tables on the preceding pages and begin to perceive the 
spiritual meaning of life-action, love-substance, truth-perfection. 
Jt is expressed in each and every state of spiritual being repre- 
sented by the ideas within the head of the law of Obedience, 
which are to be known as our real life and its true living. 

It is to be our work to apply this one meaning to all of God's 
creation, that we may see it all as good and perceive the Christ's 
presence therein as a power of Spirit at work. 

In order to do this we shall have to commit these tables to 
memory that we may know the full life-love-truth meaning of 
these ideas and realize that it is a spiritual law, and be able to 
apply it to created things, thereby proving God's presence and 
power to make all things right which appear to be wrong. For 
every false concept coming through material sense must be re- 
placed with a right one which has power within itself to prevail 
and stand. 

This is the interpretation of things which reveals the action 
and presence of life. It holds us to the one spiritual interpreta- 
tion and leaves no room for mortal imaginations to creep in and 
defile our thoughts. 

As the tables are complete and perfect, they can be learned in 
perfection and soon take possession of our being and begin to 
guide us aright with the one Christ-meaning uppermost in 
thought. 

They cannot be too closely studied nor too diligently followed 
and in learning them will we be on safe ground in our actions 
and living, for we shall find that mortal mind will oppose them 
in every way possible. 

Relations of the Ideas of the Point of Obedience. 

The three stages of life-action within the realm of mind have 
already been referred to, the first one of which is represented by 
obedience. It finds us in the mortal or physical state of belief 
as in imagination, from which we are to arise into the concept of 
dominion because we have gained it through being obedient. 
Now, having gained these two we are qualified to understand 
true spiritual being and receive the highest state. 



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Dominion is higher than obedience because it contains obe- 
dience^ and when we have gained these two are we worthy and 
able also to enter into true spiritual being. 

This law as well as others must be applied regularly and com- 
prehensively to all parts of the Star, and the following pages 
are intended to show just how the Star may be studied with 
profit. 

Beginning with loyalty we find that we are loyal only when 
we are loyal to the law; and in this state of consciousness we are 
able to understand that judgment is not a choice between good 
and evil but a prevailing of one right, and through this concept 
are we qualified to have understanding. Now it will be seen 
that these three ideas are the first ones within each realm of life, 
love, truth; they are situated within the points of the Star in 
the third revelation of mind, and give us the order of gaining 
understanding as loyalty, judgment, understanding. 

Taking service next, we find that when we serve the law only 
do we become honest, and that by serving the law honestly we 
gain a true consciousness, and that the true order of gaining a 
spiritual consciousness is in service, honesty, consciousness. 
These are the three stages of growth. 

Next, taking loveliness, we find that having gained loveliness 
then are we justified therein, for loveliness as a law of justice is 
justified, and then do we come into the concept of creation, in 
its orderly attainment of loveliness, justification, creation. 

This will help the student to discover the relation of life's 
meaning in the three realms of life, love, truth, and also to use 
them in application to every thing of good in creation. 

Out of a consciousness of loyalty do we find that service is 
necessarily present as an unavoidable accompaniment; and hav- 
ing loyalty and service present in conscience we cannot avoid be- 
coming lovely and lovable. For these states of mind come in 
order as an infallible law of right thought. We must not forget 
that in the realm of life that it is the concept of love which 
compels us to know; for we cannot have love in heart and not 
know God. This law prevails within the life point of obedience 



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and it is loveliness which compels ns to know that we are 
obedient. 

Next, taking the idea of faith as the love of loyalty, we find 
that fidelity follows perfect faith, and that having these two we 
are obliged to manifest allegiance. Here we find that in the realm 
of truth, or in a truth point, or in a truth idea, the law is the 
same, and that it is life-action which compels us to know, even 
allegiance to prove our loyalty. Out of allegiance and fidelity 
is ministration made present, followed by diligence as a result of 
allegiance and ministration. This is followed by adoration as 
the love of service and is that which makes us know service, for 
it is love as possession in the realm of life which compels us to 
know. It is well to take notice of these powers of mind and 
their action, for we are to become well acquainted with them. 

Out of the concept of diligence and adoration do we get grati- 
tude, which concept is followed by charity as an outcome of 
adoration and gratitude. Finally we come to patience as the 
truth of loveliness, and it is the product of gratitude and charity. 
As truth in the realm of love is that power of mind which com- 
pels us to know, then patience as the truth of loveliness is 
proof of our loveliness. 

In this way are we to study the states of consciousness given in 
the Star and gain a clear understanding of them for our future 
use, so that we shall be protected from all suggestions of the 
mortal consciousness, and be healed of false expressions, which 
give us fear, disease and sickness, and ultimately destroy our right 
thoughts altogether. 

Bible Records as Related to This Head of the Law. 

As each point of the Star and head of the law are taken up, 
an endeavor will be made to show the relation between them; 
first, with the commandments as given by Moses, and second, 
with the sermon on the mount as given by Jesus the Christ. For 
these two portrayals of the law seem to conform perfectly with the 
law as given in the Star of Bethlehem. The one perfectly il- 
luminates and completes the other, making them understandable 
from the standpoint of one interpretation, that of life-action, 



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love-substance, truth-perfection, and give us a certain way of 
knowing these three powers of mind which compel us to know 
the Christ. 

"Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord." 

This, the very foundation of all the commandments, means one 
absolute law, and is in fact the first realization which we are to 
acquire. It comes to us best as an ever-present presence, which 
presence is the aggregate of all spiritual laws of right and truth 
in perfect idea entities. 

From this center of all knowledge called mind come the three 
basic ideas of life, love, truth; and from them radiate all other 
ideas. 

This first commandment refers to the center of the Star as 
Mind, and this is followed by the second commandment which 
Moses gave, and it was confirmed by Jesus as being the greatest 
commandment, at least there was none greater, for it covers all 
others and from it spring all of the others. 

"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, (all of 
thy heart's love), and with all thy soul (all of thy soul's life- 
action), and with all thy might (with all the power of perfect 
truth). 

We must not overlook the fact that these two commandments 
are one in substance, even as the Father and Christ are one. 

This commandment as applied to the law as given in the Star 
means that we should seek to know the one supreme law of per- 
fection as absolute, and that its active-substance perfected is ac- 
complished through recognizing the life-love-truth meaning of 
the Christ-law. 

But for a more explicit instruction in the law as given through 
the commandments by Moses, shorn of the vail of a threat of evil, 
which Moses put over them in order to rule the warring tribes 
of Hebrews in fear, thinking most probably that love would not 
do it; we must look to the law as given by Jesus, which is por- 
trayed in the diagram of the Star of Bethlehem. * In which is 
no sting of fear as a power to make us obedient. 



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God's love, and it alone, will express the power of Mind, 
otherwise there is no power, for God's kingdom cannot be op- 
posed to itself and stand. 

Obedience as the life of love, is the substance of the first 
commandment, and composes the first head of the absolute law. 

The First Commandent. 

In Exodus 20:2, 3, we read a preface to all of the command- 
ments, which should be repeated before each one in order to re- 
mind us of the allness of the power of love and that it has al- 
ready prevailed. 

(Because) "Im the Lord thy God, which have brought thee 
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage." There- 
fore, for this reason alone we can be obedient; and when we 
are obedient do we fulfill the requirements of the first com- 
mandment. 

"Thou shalt have no other gods before me." 

To be obedient is to express the ideas of obedience, those of 
loveliness in the first point of the Star; to learn to live and to 
hold a spiritual consciousness of love for the law in all of its 
ways. 

For only in manifesting loveliness can we keep the law of 
love, because loveliness is the very soul and intent of obedience 
to a God of love. Because we are already brought up (realize 
ourselves as spiritual mentalities) out of the house of bondage 
to sense illusions, and being healed of our allegiance to them, 
then we shall not have, that is not know to have, any other gods 
but good as constructive love, for good and love have become all 
and final in consciousness. 

The Law as Given in Matthew. 

The sermon on the mount as given by Jesus is a perfect re- 
hearsal of the whole law, complete and full in every respect. It 
is given in the Bible in the fifth, sixth and seventh chapters of 
Matthew. The fifth chapter is devoted to the realm of love; 
while the sixth is devoted to the realm of truth; and the seventh 
is given to the realm of life. Herein is the law given in the 



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Order of the Candlestick and also in the Star of Bethlehem, 
therefore they are taken up in this order as referred to. 

In chapter 5, Jesus starts out in his discourse of the law 
with nine beatitudes, one for each point of the Star as a head of 
the law. And as they are taken up an effort will be made to 
associate them with the ideas as states of perfect being which 
are given as the law in the Star. 

The First Beatitude. 

"Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs' is the kingdom of 
heaven." 

Luke gives it "Blessed be ye poor." 

To give it meaning/ according to one lawful interpretation, it 
would read as follows: Blessed are the poor in all materiality, 
for in the spirit theirs' is the kingdom of heaven. 

This would make sense of this beatitude and accord with one 
law, for to be poor in loveliness certainly would not reveal the 
kingdom of heaven, but to be poor in hate would open a way to 
gain loveliness or heaven. 

Jesus said to the young man who was rich materially to go 
and sell it all and give it to the needy and then to come and 
follow him in loveliness if he would be perfect before the law in 
obedience. 

When we have much to do with materiality we are kept from 
spiritual things, for the very nature of matter in its strife of 
seeming existence, worldly desires, ambitions, etc., certainly 
hide the blessing of spiritual understanding of the perfect Christ- 
law. 

The Lord's Prayer. 

In the sixth chapter of Matthew, Jesus gave the whole law 
again in a different way, which is known as the Lord's prayer. 
This also has nine sections, each one of which is in order closely 
associated with the law as given in the Star, and will be so de- 
scribed. 

"Our Father which art in heaven." 



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This first section is intended to reveal the law of perfect 
obedience as the beginning and immortal continuation of the law 
of all being in harmony or heaven. 

The "Our" is to remind us of our reflection of the Father in 
which we live, move and have our being through obedience. 

"Father" demands and expresses obedience, and brings us in 
touch with a concept of our Creator, whose presence as the power 
of Spirit we should never lose sight of for a single instant. 

"Which art in heaven" completes our perfect harmony as an 
absolute law which governs everything in the universe without 
divergence or fault. 

The Sermon on the Mount. 

In Matthew V, verses 13 to 21, Our Saviour begins his dis- 
course by describing the first head of the law in obedience ; for he 
says, "Ye are the salt of the earth," meaning that the obedient 
were those who manifested the law, but having lost your obedi- 
ence, you are then good for nothing but to be cast out from 
service under the protection of the law, where you will be trodden 
upon by the hateful mortal-sense man. 

He also says, "Ye are the light of the world." Meaning that 
the obedient are those who give forth evidence of the law; which 
cannot be hidden, for life-action will make itself known in dem- 
onstration, and he tells us plainly to make our obedience known in 
demonstration, that we may openly glorify our Father in active- 
life as the will of good. 

In verse 17 he warns us not to misinterpret him, for he as 
the absolute law did not come to do evil, neither to express evil, 
but to fulfill the one absolute law of perfect obedience, through 
explaining and manifesting it. He further says that the prophe- 
sies which had been given in accordance with the law should 
none of them be found to be untrue, but that they should all be 
fulfilled, that is, prevail completely and absolutely. Also that if 
we break one of the least of these commandments, then we shall 
be least in the kingdom of harmony, but if we keep them we 
shall prosper in harmonious expressions. Finally, He tells us 
that to be able to get into the kingdom of heaven at all we must 



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be honestly obedient in loveliness apart from appearance and 
deceitful imaginations. 

These four references are intended to show the relation of the 
law as given by Moses and Jesus also, to be the same as that 
which is portrayed in the Star of Bethlehem, and that to keep 
the head of the law of obedience is to keep the law and fulfill its 
meaning; by this means we can all have one understandable in- 
terpretation for the whole law and all come together in one 
concept of God. 



CHAPTER VI. 

HOLINESS 

The Love of Love. 

A law of measure giving one perfect standard. 

In our analysis and investigation of spiritual being, it is abso- 
lutely necessary that we have one perfect standard of measure, 
which must be simple and easily understood so that all people 
may grasp it with understanding and be able to use it to work 
out their life problems here. 

In Isa. 35.8, we read, "And an highway shall be there, and a 
way, and it shall be called The Way of Holiness; the unclean 
shall not pass over it, but it shall be for those: the wayfaring 
men, though fools shall not err therein." 

Holiness as a realization of good in heart is simple, very de- 
sirable, satisfying and most beautiful, and we are led by its 
power both consciously and unconsciously to become perfect 
therein. 

Our Father in His wonderful wisdom and great goodness has 
given us an indestructible standard, the standard of holiness as 
the love of love, with its one Christ-meaning of life-action, love- 
substance, truth-perfection, which is a triune law of perfection. 

All action is the living will of good; and is a spontaneous voli- 
tion of Spirit to manifest the love of love as the holiness of God. 
It is always in its own image of perfection as the spiritual sub- 
stance of Mind. It is the one true standard of infallible right as 
good, everliving, and without change. The substance of good 
all around and about us is everywhere present if we will but 
open our eyes and behold it, and it alone; then shall we gain the 
true consciousness of love from looking with intent to see love 
as holiness. When we stop for a moment and turn from our 
fury of sensations to consider how love leads us through the 



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awful temptation of sense suggestions, because of its attractive 
power of love as good, we then realize that there is a power of 
Mind in love ; and that its one true standard is good, one eternal 
constructive good. 

Worldly holiness as a false sense of love soon becomes human 
lust, that is, the going after material possessions through sensa- 
tion, as the desire to possess wealth, fame, social standing, politi- 
cal and ecclesiastical power to gratify mortal ambition. But this 
is not the love of love, holiness, but the love of self, and has 
nothing to do with God. Of course, people who do not believe in 
God apart from mortality, and who are self-sufficient in their 
material fortification of wealth and self-will, cannot and will not 
understand any other good but material success alone. Neverthe- 
less, there is one and it shall prevail. Mortal self as the direct 
opposite of God and His law, does not manifest constructive 
good, for it is the outcome of selfish suggestion as a mere sense- 
imagination of love. 

That everpresent infinite presence of good, as the one law of 
perfection giving the life-love-truth meaning of all things when 
followed, will lead us into a realization of holiness; which is 
Christ's presence as real substantial love. It is the glory of 
sanctified good; the sacredness of purified being; not from the 
standpoint of outward sense appearance in pomp and show of 
worldly things, neither in the exhibit of force through repressive 
mortal laws which instill fear into the heart instead of love, for 
this is but an impotent and hopeless impression of power. 

On the other hand, from the standpoint of one constructive 
good, as Christ's presence in each and every individual heart, and 
because of the realized presence of the testimony of the Spirit 
of truth within, we need no impotent idol of flesh and blood to 
usurp its leadership, place, presence, or power here in the earth. 

The worship today of sensation, or sense appearance, as the 
desire to experience material show and pomp, also as the ag- 
grandizement of selfishness, in our finer buildings, our immense 
wealth, our greater exclusiveness and more lavish expenditures, 
thereby dividing the rich and the poor in what should be God's 



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kingdom of unity and love, is but the foolish surface or appear- 
ance of holiness, for it does not produce a consciousness of love. 

It does not give peace as a realization of good in the souls of 
men; it is rather a cause of fear, hate, pride, deceit, and rivalry, 
based upon the standard of money instead of constructive good; 
upon money, the root of evil enticement, and not upon love. 

When we know holiness as the love of love, and not that of 
money, fame, power or anything material, we shall cease to be 
attracted to the appearances of holiness in fine gowns and any 
material show whatever, for we shall be content to know it by 
its deeds of good which come from within, and no longer give 
our allegiance to the standard of money. 

Holiness as the second point of the Star stands for the love of 
love. When we begin to be obedient we are led into a concept 
of holiness, and when we are obedient we find holiness present 
also, for these two cannot be separated. Holiness is the love 
of being lovely, the love of loveliness. It becomes a power of 
Mind within us and attracts all good things and these alone. 
When we associate love with constructive good, then we realize 
that the joy of good received is our understanding of love and 
we are on the road to perceive love as holiness. Good received or 
given out is love, is holiness, and no matter how dim our under- 
standing of this fact may be, with a very little attention we shall 
perceive that good is love, and that it must be developed into a 
strong part of our character. 

An honest intent is our first requisite in procuring this most 
desirable quality of loveliness and with it many things can be 
accomplished which would otherwise be impossible. 

Holiness is more than the liking of good; it is the faithful 
allegiance to the good from which we cannot be swayed because 
we know good. Holiness is the substance of both obedience and 
harmony and is the basis of all right thoughts, that substantial 
good out of which every love concept is made and expressed. 

There are few of us who having experienced the joy of good 
received are not looking for more of the same, and should be 
ready and awake to recognize the source of its presence and 
open the way for its return that we may become more familiar 



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with it; and less familiar with the things which come to us from 
the realm of outer darkness, for these things bring confusion and 
doubt and are none of them good. 

It is very essential that we understand just what is meant by 
the one standard of "holiness"; for to continue any longer with 
two standards, striving to harmonize both good and evil as a 
standard is but confusion. 

We are obliged each day to choose which one we will serve ; the 
one of death in sense concepts, or the one of life in Mind as soul 
experiences. 

God did not make man a hypocrite, an idolator, nor a dualist, 
but made him without spot or blemish in his own image and 
likeness of Mind or Spirit, as an active spiritual mentality, that 
he might express this one standard of holiness as the love of 
love. 

In Mathew 12:25, we read, "Every kingdom divided against 
itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided 
against itself shall not stand." 

This saying is very significant as to that which God created as 
man, and commanded to walk in the one law of holiness ; that 
he might work out his problems in perfection. We should look 
within our own house of conscience and see that it is not divided 
against itself with sense testimony and soul testimony, for such 
a house shall not stand. We must choose without any hesitation 
between these two methods of receiving information, and abide 
in the one or the other exclusively. 

When we begin to realize that life is not a chaotic terror of 
confusion and uncertainty, governed by two standards of 
interpretation, in which both good and evil seem to prevail; but 
that it is rather in perfect accord with a law of good only, which 
can be learned and demonstrated with positive certainty, then 
will we awake and employ this principle of good, to manifest 
these right ideas as states of perfect being which overcome the 
evil as a terror of confusion. 

All of these states of perfect being are in unison with the 
standard of holiness, because holiness is the very foundation of 
good and love. 



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And in the proportion to our understanding of the law will our 
ability to heal ourselves and others depend, also our progress in 
overcoming sin be made manifest. 

In Matthew 12:31, 32, we read, "Wherefore I say unto you, 
All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; 
but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven 
unto men." 

"And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of Man it 
shall be forgiven him; but whosoever speaketh against the Holy 
Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither 
in the world to come." 

The Spirit of truth or the Holy Ghost as the Spirit of the 
perfect law of righteousness, and as the power of the principle 
of all right ideas, which has holiness as its oue standard of 
measure; is that perfect law of spiritual knowing, by means of 
which only, we can work out our problems in living correctly. 
No matter just what deception we have been laboring under in 
sin, by means of this scientific law it can be cast out and over- 
come. Even all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be overcome 
in this way, and by means of this law. Opposition even to the 
Son of man and good in general shall be overcome, because of the 
testimony of the Spirit of truth of one standard of holiness within 
our conscience ; which is to seal our understanding of love as all. 

Now if we deny this perfect law or principle of right ideas, 
and blaspheme against the Spirit of truth as a law of right and 
good within our conscience, thereby do we deprive ourselves of 
the very means through which we might gain our forgiveness 
in the destruction of the sin. Until we turn from our willful 
way this sin of denying the law shall not be overcome, neither 
here or hereafter, not until we are called of God, that is until 
we learn to be attracted to the good as love. 

In John 6:44, Q5, we have a reference to this subject. 

"No man can come to me except the Father which hath 
sent me draw him, and I will raise him up at the last day." 

"And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can 
come unto me except it were given unto him of my Father." 



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From this saying we are to understand that no man can come 
into the realization of the Christ consciousness except he is born 
of that nature and disposition which seeks good in preference to 
evil; and is attracted to the good as love because of its nature; 
wherein he will be raised up out of the death concepts of ma- 
terial sense testimony, and into a living understanding of holi- 
ness as the love of love. 

How can we best gain this understanding of holiness as the 
law of the love of love, and live therein? 

We must first discover within our own heart's consciousness 
the one Christ-meaning of holiness. We begin with consecration 
as the life-action of holiness, for when we consecrate our- 
selves to the one perfect law through knowing obedience, we 
are brought into a realization of holiness. In this consciousness 
we find sanctity as the love substance of holiness and are sanc- 
tified therein. We are sanctified because of the power of good in 
this law of perfection as the holiness of love. In this state of 
true love are we purified through the power of its presence. 

To consecrate ourselves to the one law of perfection is to 
dedicate our thoughts and actions in veneration and devotion 
unto love. (Note these ideas upon the Star.) Therein we learn 
to love and to be lovely and lovable; through looking at all 
times to see the good with intent to express the law of life, love, 
truth. Herein are we taught the sanctity which the law of holi- 
ness brings into consciousness by way of communion with the 
Spirit of truth, giving grace and sacredness to our being. 

As we consecrate ourselves to the service of good we are 
sanctified therein, and our reflected image of holiness becomes 
purified; and the very cleanness of our hearts and immaculate- 
ness of our being is given life by virtue, as the purity of holiness. 

Holiness is that substance or possession of good which is lived 
and made perfect, and as a head of the law we are to learn of its 
substance as our only possession of truth, it is to be the founda- 
tion of a sacred conscience; and is to be our realization of virtue 
as the purity of love which is the essential part of the whole law. 



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The Christ-Law 



A Table of Comparison of Good and Evil Ideas in the 

Law of Holiness 



Holiness 
Wickedness 



Consecration 
Perversity 

Sanctity 
Blasphemy 



Purity 
Adulteration 



Dedication Aversion 

Veneration Dishonor 

Devoutness Disregard 

Communion Scorn 

Grace Corruption 

Sacredness Profanity 

Cleanness Filthiness 
Immaculateness Sin 

Virtue Vice 



HOLINESS, the Love of Love, versus WICKEDNESS, 

as a Hate Concept. 

Wickedness signifies the aggressive hatred of the mortal con- 
sciousness, which is an imaginary or counterfeit sense-mind. 
This mind has no action or ability of its own, but seeks to express 
its evil intent by borrowing from us the use of our God-given 
life-action; for this reason we must be awake and not be drawn 
into any such deal with evil. 

Because of the law of right and good in Spirit, these illusions 
can be definitely discovered and avoided; their nothingness is 
made very apparent to us when we withhold our life-action from 
them. We must seek the law of spiritual righteousness that we 
may know the presence of the Christ and therein receive the 
knowledge and power to resist these false states of seeming 
being. 

An understanding of holiness is the best way to clear out of 
consciousness all sense of wickedness, that we may be free in 
the love of love. 



CONSECRATION, the Life of Holiness, versus PERVERS- 
ITY, as a Death Concept. 

Perversity is a mortal state of hatred which manifests no good 
or attachment to anything. It is not found within the law of 



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the Christ, hence is not real or true. Perversity opposes all good 
and right and is an imperfect sense expression of death. Its 
intent is to rob us of a concept of action in doing good, because 
of suggestion of bad which has no meaning apart from nothing- 
ness. Even as there is no darkness in the presence of the sun, 
so there is no darkness of perversity in the law of the Christ, 
which is represented by consecration to the law. 

SANCTITY, the Love of Holiness, versus BLASPHEMY, 

as a Hate Concept. 

To blaspheme against the law is the one unforgiven sin, for it 
deprives us of the one means of delivery from sin. We cannot 
blaspheme against the Spirit of truth in declaring an evil oppo- 
sition to the good, and at the same time gain the benefit of the 
law's power to deliver us from this very sin. To find sanctity 
in the expression of the law is to be healed of all manner of sin 
as mortal expressions apart from the law. 

It is the law of love or holiness which sanctifies, and makes 
pure our thoughts and acts and delivers us from blasphemy in 
sense concepts. 

PURITY, the Truth of Holiness^ versus ADULTERA- 
TION, as a False Concept. 

Adulteration is a false suggestion with the meaning to defile, 
or to destroy; and is a careless, thoughtless mortal expression of 
imperfection. In God's kingdom there is no adulteration, for 
His word cannot be adulterated in any way; that is, nothing 
can be added to it, or taken from its already perfect state of 
being. 

We must be very careful not to defile our own selfhood 
through adulterating the lawful thoughts with unlawful ex- 
pressions of sense experiences; for these evil things seem to 
appear at every turn and are exceedingly persistent in their 
subtle suggestions. 

Purity is our one safe place of abode, and we cannot afford 
to neglect this state of perfect being within the Christ-law. 



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DEDICATION, the Truth of Consecration, versus AVER- 
SION, as a False Concept. 

Aversion is the mortal consciousness of the impotent self, 
from which we are to be delivered. This concept is a desire to 
turn from everything because of the confusion of good and evil 
consciousness, and it is overcome when we lose sight of self as 
evil. When we make up our minds to cease to look for evil ap- 
pearances and turn our thoughts into the perfect channel of the 
law, and so consecrate ourselves to the law, shall we overcome the 
sense of aversion. 

We must actually dedicate ourselves to serve the law of reality 
alone as those states of being which prevail and manifest life- 
action, for in these only are we delivered from expressing the 
false thoughts of aversion. 

VENERATION, the Life of Consecration, versus DIS- 
HONOR, as a Death Concept. 

To dishonor is the hate in fear because of opposition which 
we do not understand; the mortal concepts are all of them dis- 
honorable because they serve self instead of the law in venera- 
tion. When we know the allness of one right law we are bound 
to venerate this state of perfect being in its power of good. Be- 
cause of this good we are forced to release the false conscious- 
ness of dishonor; in it we would be dishonored ourselves, for we 
are commanded to walk in the law of honor and dedicate our 
hearts to it. 

DEVOUTNESS, the Love of Consecration, versus DIS- 
REGARD, as a Hate Concept. 

To disregard the law of Christ's teaching is to be left in the 
darkness of mortal imagination ; we cannot disregard truth and 
right in life action, for if we do we are left in the mortal belief 
of the lie and wrong in death or nothingness, and do not express 
spiritual being. 

Mortal imagination says that it is real, and it certainly seems 
real; but it cannot prove its reality except through the testimony 



Holiness 107 

of itself, which in any law is not accepted as true. The law of 
good and right has prevailed against it and has the self-inherent 
power to prove its ability, which is sufficient to convince and 
satisfy us. Constant devoutness to the law will establish our 
spiritual consciousness and deliver us from disregard. 

COMMUNION, the Life of Sanctity, versus SCORN, as 

a Hate Concept. 

Scorn is a personification of the evil sense-mind, in an un- 
lawful bondage to two laws which has brought confusion and 
fury into consciousness. When we arrive at the state of knowing 
one law and have therein one standard we are free from this 
offensive sense of fear, which is an appearance of something 
different from that which we think right. We must gain an 
understanding and love of one law in order to be free from 
scorn. 

It is through communion with love that we learn to love the 
law of love, and as we know the good we perceive the nothingness 
of the bad as scorn, and withhold our thought from this error of 
expression. 

GRACE, the Love of Sanctity, versus CORRUPTION, as 

a Hate Concept. 

Corruption is a result of false thinking and acting which is 
manifest in material beliefs as something to be feared; we must 
know that truth cannot be corrupted and that the truth is the 
whole of being, real expression. 

It is impossible to make life as presence, to cease to be present, 
and corrupt it with death as absence; for the seeming corruption 
of death is merely a phase of life's action in the process of its 
being. Its false sense appearance of an end concerns sense only, 
which is in itself imperfect and unreliable and not to be fol- 
lowed. 

There is a heaven here in the earth for those who can realize 
that one absolute law is the only truth and salvation for man. 



108 The Christ-Law 

SACREDNESS, the Truth of Sanctity, versus PROFAN- 
ITY^ as a Hate Concept. 

Profanity in all of its terrible concepts is such an apparent 
death thought that it does not need much effort to put it out of 
our house of conscience. Its very sense of viciousness is its own 
destroyer. It comes to us as an intense suggestion of fear be- 
cause of the presence of right. 

Not until we begin to be attracted to the love and good, be- 
cause of the right therein, shall we cease to curse and swear, and 
express the animal nature in opposition to the spiritual law. 
Sacredness as a lawful state of being surely expresses the Christ 
and will give us power to serve Him. 

CLEANNESS, the Love of Purity, versus FILTHINESS, 

as a Hate Concept. 

Filthiness is the utter mortal blindness which is manifest in 
the acts of those who are deep in material sensations, and the 
old saying that cleanliness is next to godliness must be true and 
reveal the law of good. For to be clean is to be right and good 
also, and include perfect health of body as well as of mind, that 
we may be in peace and harmony. 

Filthiness covers our thoughts about and allegiance to every 
form of disgusting disease and sickness, which, through its ap- 
pearance holds us in bondage to fear, not because it is right and 
good, but because it is death, a seeming something. Often more 
to us in power than the perfect God. 

IMMACULATENESS, the Truth of Purity, versus SIN, 

as a False Concept. 

Sin in a broad sense is believing in any material appearance, 
and the giving to it power as reality and good. Sin is the un- 
lawful use of our God-given gift of life-action in thought upon 
material appearances of evil; we cannot help ourselves and keep 
from sinning if we follow this sense testimony of material im- 
pressions, because they are all imaginations of good and evil, 
right and wrong. 



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Immaculateness expresses the absolute law of one righteous 
good, and seeks the realm of spirit for its perfect being instead 
of matter. Sin is inaction of the law within our conscience, and 
to overcome this sin we must make active the ideas of the law. 

VIRTUE, the Life of Purity, versus VICE, as a Death 

Concept. 

Vice is a suggestion from the evil mortal consciousness because 
we have not heard the call of love and good, which bids us come 
into the kingdom of heaven and be at peace. The call of the 
Father-law of love is irresistible in its attraction to the children 
of Israel, because of their natural desire for the good. In this 
desire is an inherent power to destroy the concept of vice and cast 
it out as a very undesirable inhabitant of our house of conscience. 
Virtue is the desire of the heart for life's immortality, which it 
perceives to be all there is worth while. 

Just how can we learn to express the ideas given in the fol- 
lowing tables, and thereby live in the right states of being, 
according to the Christ consciousness as a perfect law of abso- 
lute perfection? 

We must first be sure to perceive the right and good in 
the ideas of the law, and note their prevailing over the seeming 
power of their opponents. 

Until we can accept the evil as nothingness, not in theory 
as an appearance but in fact, can we understand that evil is 
unreliable, that it has no power of its own, and for this reason 
we can be free from bondage to evil by merely reserving our 
thought and direct it into proper channels of the good. 

When we have reached this state of consciousness we are 
ready to take up the following tables, which give the real and 
true expression of the Christ-law in its full meaning. 

Beginning with the first table, we read: — 

The love-substance of substantial love equals love's substan- 
tial Holiness. 

This is a definition of holiness, one which has for its mean- 
ing the Christ idea of love as substance, which is the product 
of life and truth. 



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We must not forget that love is good and that good realized 
in conscience is our love; also that love as substance is the 
realization of life made perfect in truth; from this we can see 
how the absolute law of love is expressed in the preceding 
table. 

Going to the second table, we read: — 

The life-action of substantial love equals truth's perfect 
Consecration. 

The life-action means the thinking soul-expression of love; 
this is to be and is the perfected state of consecration and 
gives one definition. 

The following pages should be studied in conjunction with 
the Star. 

The Tables in the Second Point of the Star of Holiness. 

Table One. 

The love-substance of substantial Love equals love's substan- 
tial Holiness. 

Table Two. 

The life-action of substantial Holiness equals truth's perfect 
Consecration. 

The love-substance of substantial Holiness equals love's sub- 
stantial Sanctity. 

The truth-perfection of substantial Holiness equals life's ac- 
tive Purity. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Holiness, in the third revelation of Mind, are 
Consecration, Sanctity, Purity. These three ideas represent 
Holiness. 

Table Three. 

The truth-perfection of active Consecration equals love's sub- 
stantial Dedication. 

The life-action of active Consecration equals life's active Ven- 
eration. 

The love-substance of active Consecration equal truth's perfect 
Devoutness. 



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Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Consecration, in the fourth revelation of Mind, 
are Dedication, Veneration, Devoutness. These three ideas 
represent Consecration. 

Table Four. 

The life-action of substantial Sanctity equals truth's perfect 
Communion. 

The love-substance of substantial Sanctity equals love's sub- 
stantial Grace. 

The truth-perfection of substantial Sanctity equals life's active 
Sacredness. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Sanctity, in the fourth revelation of Mind, are 
Communion, Grace, Sacredness. These three ideas represent 
Sanctity. 

Table Five. 

The love-substance of perfect Purity equals life's active Clean- 
ness. 

The truth-perfection of perfect Purity equals truth's perfect 
Immaculateness. 

The life-action of perfect Purity equals love's substantial Virtue. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Purity, in the fourth revelation of Mind, are 
Cleanness, Immaculateness, Virtue. These three ideas repre- 
sent Purity. 

The preceding tables reveal ttie power of the Christ-Mind 
in its perfection of completeness, which compels us to know 
the good only and to be healed therein of all false interpreta- 
tions of Holiness. 

We are to know that a soul expression of these ideas will 
deliver us from the evil suggestion of their sense opposites. 
This is because evil in any form cannot answer to our demand 
that it reveal unto us the Christ meaning of life, love, truth. 
This demand alone will serve to separate the good from the 
evil and therein make us free from deception. 



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The Relations of the Ideas in the Point of Holiness 

These are the relation of the ideas within the point of the 
Star of Holiness, and how to study them so that they may be 
established in consciousness, and serve to reveal the law of 
love. 

Holiness is the sixth stage of our understanding of spiritual 
being and is the third and highest within the realm of love. 
While it directly follows obedience in the Star, there are four 
intermediate stages of development between them. Neverthe- 
less Holiness is to be considered here. 

Beginning with consecration as the result of loveliness, we 
are led thereby to a higher concept, in which we want the abso- 
lute truth represented by science as the love of principle. Hav- 
ing consecration in science, we are led to understand realitj r 
as the truth of being; hence consecration to science reveals 
reality. 

It will be seen that these ideas are the first ones in the sec- 
ond points of the Star in the realms of love, truth, life; and 
this gives us the order of progression in gaming the under- 
standing of reality. 

Next, taking sanctity as the love of holiness, we find that as 
we are sanctified only do we become holy and gain the law 
of love. Then only are we ready to know law as true spiritual 
being. Knowing sanctity and law, are we able to conceive in- 
finity as the infinite life-action of being. 

These three ideas are the second ones in the second points 
of the Star in each realm of life, love, truth; and the progres- 
sive thought in order is sanctity, law, infinity. 

Next comes purity as the truth of holiness; when we become 
pure in heart we become orderly in thought, and having gained 
pure scientific thought and perceived that it is orderly then can 
we understand presence as infinite Mind and lose our concept of 
presence as space filled with material substance of destructive 
force. 

Out of service and loveliness come a concept of consecration 
as the life of holiness ; out of loveliness and consecration come 
sanctitv as the love of holiness ; out of consecration and sane- 



Holiness 113 

tity come purity as the truth of holiness. This gives the law 
of Mind in its perfect way of revelation to its children, which 
is that we go from one thought to another in regular form, 
according to the Christ way or meaning of life-action, love- 
substance, truth-perfection. 

In the fourth revelation of Mind's meaning we find that 
charity and patience give us a concept of dedication, and out 
of patience and dedication we get the consciousness of venera- 
tion, and out of veneration and dedication comes the concept 
of devoutness which is the love of consecration. These are 
the three ideas which reveal consecration. 

Out of veneration and devoutness we receive communion, and 
out of devoutness and communion comes grace; while out of 
communion and grace we understand sacredness. Thus it is that 
the three ideas of communion, grace and sacredness give us the 
Christ meaning of sanctity. 

From grace and sacredness do we get cleanness, and from 
sacredness and cleanness we perceive immaculateness ; and from 
cleanness and immaculateness we are given a concept of virtue. 

It must not be overlooked that until we get completely around 
from faith to comprehension have we had one complete con- 
cept of Mind in perfection, for it takes the entire fourth circle 
to give Mind's perfect meaning. 

We find that in the realm of love, that purity as the perfected 
state or truth of love in holiness is that which makes us to 
know that we are holy and seals our conscience therein. 

Also that devoutness as the possession of love is that which 
seals our consciousness of consecration and makes us to know 
that we are consecrated to the law. 

Sacredness as the truth of love seals our knowing of sanctity 
because of its perfected state, beyond which mind will not go. 

Virtue as the life-action of purity makes us to know purity 
because of its action in demonstration as a positive fact of being 
pure. 



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Bible Records as Related to This Head of the Law of 

Holiness. 

The Second Commandment. 

With this second point of the Star is associated the second 
commandment. 

Exodus 20:2-4. (Because) "I am the Lord thy God which 
have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house 
of bondage." Out of the service of material sensations, into 
the spiritual understanding of the perfect law of the Christ. 
Therefore : 

"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any 
likeness of anything that is in heaven above; or that is in the 
earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;" 

"Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them. 

When we realize our rightful state of being in Mind and 
not in matter, we shall not substitute images of matter as rep- 
resentative of spiritual being, but separate them one from the 
other, for one will have power as somethingness in life-action; 
the other lack power as nothingness because it is without ac- 
tion. 

The supreme law of spiritual power in Mind will satisfy us, 
and we shall not bow down to material things because of the 
higher concepts of spiritual presence which we have gained 
through holiness. 

The Second Beatitude. 

Matthew 5:4. "Blessed are they that mourn; for they shall 
be comforted." 

This beatitude is associated with the second head of the 
law of holiness. 

We certainly find it hard to give up our attachment and as- 
sociations to material things, because of long-standing habits 
and the seeming necessity of these things, no matter if we 
have suffered in consequence of our allegiance to them and 
found much misery through their use. 



Holiness 115 

This lesson of sorrow experience is righted when we awake 
to the law in all of its purity and strength to guide us aright 
into channels of peace, love and joy, wherein we receive com- 
fort in their expression. 

Holiness as a law of love is a very great blessing when 
known. 

The Lord's Prayer. 

The second section of the Lord's Prayer is in association 
with holiness as the second point of the Star: 

"Hallowed be thy name." 

We see how Jesus included in four words the substance of 
holiness as the love of love, for to love love is to hallow love, 
and exalt it above everything in the earth. The spiritual sub- 
stance of holiness as loveliness is the foundation of the whole 
law, for love is the law. 

We are to know and hallow this character and nature of love 
in holiness. 

The Sermon on the Mount. 

In Matt. 5:21 we begin to hear about those things which 
oppose holiness, especially those things which blind and darken 
our concept of the love of love or loveliness. 

Jesus recites the commandment that whosoever shall kill 
shall be in danger of the judgment; and by judgment is meant 
that good is already chosen above evil. Jesus goes further, 
for he says, "Whosoever is angry without a cause (and there 
is no cause or excuse for anger at any time) disobeys the law 
of holiness as loveliness ; and whosoever shall criticise his 
brother, saying Raca (vain fellow), is led away from the law; 
but whosoever shall say thou fool is manifesting hate (the direct 
opposite of love in holiness) and he shall be in danger of the 
fire of fear." 

Next Jesus sums it all up in telling us just what to do, for 
he says that when we bring our gift to the altar, our gift 
of an ability to think spiritual thoughts as states of being, 
and lay them upon the altar of holiness as its perfect law, that 
if we sense hate from any source we are to go and harmonize 



116 The Christ-Law 

this discord before we shall be acceptable to the law or be able 
to understand the state of holiness. 

In this hate concept, no matter in how subtle a way it is 
manifest, we are evil in it, and he says for us to agree with 
our adversary of truth while we are in the way of it; that is, 
at once, and to do it quickly before it reacts upon us as a 
mighty power to prevail and punish our disobedience. If we 
do not we shall be cast into sorrow and suffering and shall 
have to pay the full penalty of our sin. 

Herein is hate shown to be the most active opponent to holi- 
ness and that holiness as the state of loveliness is that which is 
referred to. 

Next comes the vice of sensuality, against which Jesus urges 
the most desperate methods. He says that a look with intent 
of lust is sin already. He says that it is profitable for us to 
lose an eye or hand, even any organ which leads us into sin, 
rather than keep it to our destruction. Adultery, as that adul- 
teration of anything which is pure and perfect, must be avoided 
at all costs. Sensuality is the second sin which especially op- 
poses holiness. 

Again we are told not to swear at all; that is, by our own 
authority we must not assume the power which belongs to the 
law alone. We cannot control it, but must understand that 
it is by its great mercy that we live in it; and we are cau- 
tioned by Jesus to see to it that we walk in the law and ac- 
knowledge its perfect way with an aye, aye, to its ruling;* also 
that we deny self with a nay, nay, for whatsoever departs from 
this ruling opposes the law and manifests evil. 

These four references are intended to point out the relation 
of the law given in the Star to that given in the sermon on 
the mount. 



CHAPTER VII. 

HARMONY 

the Truth of Love. 

A law of Completion which seals our knowing. 

To understand is to realize truth's perfection. 

To know is to have the presence of constructive good in heart. 

To understand and know is to realize and accept the life- 
love-truth-meaning of good as all and final. 

All humanity are asking this question, "What does it mean 
to know?" "In what way can I obtain a soul experience of 
knowing, and know that I know, because I know just how and 
why I know?" 

This subject is best explained by giving a definite illustra- 
tion, thus calling to mind already existing states of knowing, 
from which we can go on and on unto the full attainment of 
knowing our God-given dominion of harmony, and therein over- 
come all sense suggestion of imperfect truth. 

In explanation let us take an example of knowing so simple 
and so universally known that it will express plainly just what 
to know means. For instance, 2 times 2 equals 4. It is the 
fact of knowing which we are to grasp as a realization of 
good in heart, not the fact of its being 4 alone, but the whole 
intent of perfection in the complete idea as meaning good. 

If to know consists in discovering and accepting the life- 
love-truth-meaning of good in all things as ideas, we can say at 
once that we have found the good which is manifest in the 
perfect and complete idea of 2 times 2 equals 4. 

It is a realization of its complete perfection and permanent 
good to which we hold fast; for this good as God's presence 
has within it an inherent power to draw us to it. It is this 



118 The Christ-Law 

consciousness which constitutes our soul experience of perfect 
knowing. 

Our fact of knowing is the fact of finding the good as God 
within our own heart's conscience; and it is this same knowing 
which Jesus referred to when he said, "Ye shall know the 
truth, and the truth shall make you free." 

In this light of knowing let us find more light, more knowing, 
for if any one should suggest to us that 2 times 2 equals 7 we 
would not be disturbed thereby nor offended thereat, nor would 
we change our perfect allegiance to the 4. And why? Be- 
cause we know that both good and right are manifest by the 
4. It is because we have found the good and right in the 4 
and understand that good's one meaning is life-action, love- 
substance, truth-perfection, and that there is no good anywhere 
to be found but this one. 

In past experiences we have persistently labored with this 
idea, and through the life-action of thought produced the good 
in it, and then continued within the consciousness of this good 
because we liked it, and until an enduring and perfect state 
appeared to us. Right there we knew, because of the power of 
the perfection in its harmony. Its loyalty to us was revealed 
as being always ready to manifest its particular good in perfec- 
tion, in which we may have absolute confidence. Because of 
this whenever we figure up our accounts we do not use 5, 7 or 
9 in the place of 4, for we know the truth to be 4, and this per- 
fect knowing is not assailable by any sense suggestion. 

Herein do we discover that because we know the 4 are we 
absolutely protected from the erroneous suggestions of other 
numbers which come to us from outer darkness as being just 
as good or even better, and it is because we know, that these 
have lost their power over us to deceive and confuse. 

Again, because we know 2 times 2 equals 4 do we discover 
that we cannot know it to equal anything else ; and therefore 
we rest in peace and harmony. This fact once known is our 
power of freedom in knowing and it is our absolute protection 
from sense suggestions of error. 



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Now it may be contended that the complete idea of 2 times 
2 equals 4 is an idea of an absolute science, and because of its 
absoluteness it may be known perfectly and without doubt, be- 
cause it can be proven, but that the ideas of obedience and 
harmony cannot be so known. 

Still Jesus said that they could be so known, for he said: 
"Ye shall know the truth." Again he commanded us to be per- 
fect even as our Father is perfect, which cannot be in any less 
degree than perfection. Now when these ideas are presented 
to you aright in the perfect Christ-meaning and according to 
one absolute law, then you shall know also, and more, you 
shall know that you know, and you shall know just why and 
how, because they can be proven, and when known will make 
us free from their opposing errors. 

There is little difference in the form of these two state- 
ments (2 times 2 equals 4-) and (The life of love equals obedi- 
ence). Both can be committed and learned perfectly, because 
complete and perfect, and when known through practice will 
produce good every time. 

This knowing is to make us free from sense suggestions 
which oppose the one perfect state of being, thinking to 
change it. 

In this same way are we to learn that the truth of love 
equals harmony, and be at peace. But not until we have proven 
this fact will we get the result in knowing; nevertheless it is 
there as a power of Mind and can establish our consciousness 
in perfected love, which is harmony. 

These ideas and their Christ meaning are reduced to table 
form, which are just as perfect as the tables in mathematics, 
and just as useful and applicable to our problems in living; 
and are all portrayed in the diagram of the Star of Bethlehem 
and may be learned therein. 

When this ever-present law of perfection is presented to us 
aright, then shall we arise and understand, just as Jesus said 
that we should, for if any one should say to us, 2 times 2, and 
stop there we should not be satisfied, because of a sense of 



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incompleteness and imperfection. And until we arrive at the 
understanding that it is 4, thereby getting the complete idea 
in truth, we are helpless and under the influence of sense sug- 
gestion, and all that we have with which to complete this idea 
of 2 times 2 is that great mass of false interpretations which 
we have experienced in past years through the deceiving and 
imperfect senses. This sense comes to our rescue with any- 
thing that it first picks up from 7 to 11, and offers it without 
thought or reason, for it has none to give. But when we gain 
the understanding that it equals 4, through having proved it, 
we are no longer in doubt, fear or confusion, because we know. 

In the same way, we have been told to live in harmony, 
when we did not know what harmony was, according to the 
Christ-Mind; for harmony is the truth of love, true loveli- 
ness. Because we did not know that harmony was loveliness 
perfected we were at the mercy of sense suggestion, which 
immediately assumes to supply a meaning; and when through 
sense appearance we behold our neighbor casting out of the 
home his son for the sake of harmony we are not satisfied, for 
there is no harmony manifested. Not until the true love of 
harmony comes into the hearts of both father and son, perfect- 
ing their loveliness, will any harmony appear, for harmony is 
the truth of love. And in the day that they gain this concept 
will both become free from their error. 

Further Facts of Knowing. 

Obedience as the life-action of love, because of its active 
intent, is bound to produce something as the substance of real- 
ized good within our hearts. This constitutes our loveliness 
as holiness in us ; we abide within this love substance of holiness 
because we discover an irresistible attraction therein as the 
power of good. When we abide therein and make this place 
of good our one place of habitation, we find that the active 
life therein continually produces one state of good, which is 
our realized love. And that it is the same one perfect thing of 
perfection which is to become our harmony, our true and per- 
fected state of love. 



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In this state of perfection is our knowing to be completed, 
for it is a realization of complete perfection alone which truly 
satisfies, and is final from the testimony of the Spirit of truth. 

Therefore all ideas in Mind symbolizing love's substance as 
constructive good are fulfilled and our knowing sealed in con- 
sciousness because of the presence of truth's perfection; that 
is, all love as constructive good becomes all powerful when per- 
ceived as perfection. 

Now, just how may I learn to love and live in perfection? 

We begin with life as the action of Mind; in other words, 
we begin by thinking right thoughts only — that is, the declara- 
tion of a heart's desire with intent to live a state of true being, 
according to the Christ-law of life-love-truth-meaning of good. 

At all times God speaks to the children of Israel and says 
unto them: "Walk before Me and be ye perfect." Jesus re- 
peated it, for he said: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your 
Father which is in heaven is perfect." 

To walk before our Father and be perfect means to express 
His perfect thoughts as ideas or states of spiritual being, and 
to express their spiritual meaning of life-action, love-substance, 
truth-perfection only. 

We shall then begin to live with good in the temple of good, 
and to learn of a sure and immortal state of perfect being, 
and as we know shall we go no more out. 

As we declare the good with the intent to be good and be- 
come obedient to the law of supreme perfection shall we be 
led to know another idea in close touch with the one which we 
have been declaring. This is the scientific way to learn to love 
and live in perfection, for we are led from one idea to another, 
according to a perfect law of Mind. 

When we learn to pray without ceasing, that is, to declare 
these ideas systematically and commit them to mind, realizing 
their life-love-truth-meaning as all power, it will be a convinc- 
ing state of being which compels us to know. These are the 
attraction of good, the unassailable power of truth perfection 
and the demonstrable certainty of life's action. 



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Then shall we be led into knowing just how to love and live 
in perfection, through Mind power. 

When we begin to do — that is, to live these Christ ideas in 
mind as desires or intentions of heart — we become kindly and 
gentle at all times and places, and under all conditions, and 
learn to love our neighbor as ourselves, because we see all 
things to be within the law. When we do a kindness to any- 
one we must not forget to rejoice with them, for it is our com- 
mand; indeed, it is our rightful service, and, more, it is our 
privilege and way to learn how to love and live in perfection, 
and as we persist in our rejoicing shall we learn more and 
more that love is good. 

We shall not have to practice long before we discover the 
way and see the result of our efforts, for every right idea once 
learned is a sure barrier against some evil suggestion which 
is to free us forever^ because we know, and know how and why 
we know, that the good is all and final. 

How can I learn to express Harmony and abide under its 
influence and government and through it be made free from 
fury and confusion? 

Without the perfecting experience of the two preceding 
heads of the law of obedience and holiness, we cannot know 
or express harmony at will through a dominion of thought in 
Mind. But having attained unto a realization of loving love- 
liness, and being able to express it as a live, active soul ex- 
perience within, we are sanctified thereby and purified therein; 
bringing to pass an understanding consciousness of peace as 
the love of harmony. This is the beginning of our knowing. 

When our heart's desire goes out to the things of harmony 
in love, and we really seek with all our might to find it, we 
get a clear, strong perception of the ever-present infinite pres- 
ence of the law of constructive good. Following this comes 
to us a realization of that true state of the law of perfect trust 
because of perceived spiritual perfection. 

That active state of peaceful thought in expression of good 
is the power of the law which we can surely trust. It reveals 
a state of quietude, and is an acknowledged state of the pres- 



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ence of the law, the Spirit of reality and power. Herein have 
we found good in the secret place of knowing. 

Peace as the love substance of harmony when realized as a 
soul experience of substantial good leads us into unity and uni- 
son with perfect good; the oneness, union and agreement of 
perfection. All of which we can learn to express through 
constantly declaring them. 

As a final state of understanding comes freedom as the life- 
action of harmony, the one active state which seals our know- 
ing within the realm of truth perfection. For freedom as lib- 
erty from confusion and the soul's rejoicing because of the 
presence of health in perfect action of body and mind is the 
proof of harmonious being, the work of which is done by the 
active Mind in manifesting its law of prevailing good. 

Again, just how do we get this understanding consciousness 
of the Christ-law of perfection, and know? And through know- 
ing just how and why we know, be made free from Confusion? 
How can we attain this scientific law and demonstrate it with 
certainty through the power of mind? 

First, we must recognize that harmony is the perfected and 
finished state of loveliness, and that if perfected in us it must 
have required the diligent use of our God-given gift of mind. 
It is to be an ability to think and to declare with the soul a 
realization of progressive steps or thoughts in the understand- 
ing of Mind's perfect being; which is to be a developed state of 
spiritual expression through a perfect method of mental reve- 
lation. 

Let us begin with the acknowledgement of the presence of 
a supreme law of perfection. When this is realized in heart 
we find present with it an idea called faith or trust, which is a 
spiritual sense of our connection with the law. Our perfect 
faith in this law comes from its loyalty to us, for our loyalty 
to it must be the image of its loyalty to us, hence our perfect 
faith. But our loyalty to have being must be active and take 
on the form of service as a soul's expression of perfect 
allegiance to the law. Out of this state of consciousness will 



124 The Christ-Law 

come another, which will express love in perfection, as loveli- 
ness the true state of obedience. 

These states of being have been a progressive growth or ex- 
pression in consciousness and constitute our living action within 
Mind. 

Beginning again with this learned expression of obedience in 
the first point of the Star, we find that in the loveliness ex- 
pressed have we consecrated ourselves to love as holiness ; and 
why? Because we reached the state of love in our loyalty. 
This thought of loveliness held fast to and practiced in heart 
honestly will sanctify us, thereby revealing the substance of 
holiness. We must practice this state of consciousness until 
sanctity becomes a reality within our hearts, and it is possible 
because of our dominion of mind as an ability to produce spir- 
itual states of perfect being. This indisputable power of the 
thinking soul has the ability to produce or reveal its own being 
in perfection through mental action. 

Therefore when we have established a state of realized sanc- 
tity within our conscious being we shall find purity there also; 
for the purifying influence of Spirit at work cannot help but 
express itself in the law. 

We will have prepared ourselves to experience a state of 
peacefulness as the beginning of harmony; for our thought in 
love has reached its third state and is being perfected. Our 
trust and faith is much strengthened, for we now have them 
firmly established and rest in sweet repose and quiet. 

We know the power of mind to be able to do these things 
and our ability through its use to establish a state of perfect 
being in the soul. 

Then comes rejoicing because of the power of mind's action 
to live constructive good and reproduce God's thoughts in per- 
fection as states of being in mind. This reveals unto us our 
way of freedom, and with practice we come into a realization 
of our authority and dominion over all sense testimony which 
opposes the perfect law of Mind. 

As a last state of realization within the realm of love we 
find freedom, that perfect consciousness of harmony which seals 



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125 



our knowing, because of being active in doing — that is, in liv- 
ing a state of being free. When we have accomplished this 
route of mental action we have gained a concept of the ideas 
of love which are our rightful inheritance and possession, after 
which we come into a state of health and peace, through the 
joy within mind and body. 



A Table of Comparison of Good and Evil Ideas in the 

Law of Harmony. 



Harmony 
Discord 



Peace 
Offense 



i Unity 
' Division 



Freedom 
Bondage 



Trust 

Quietude 

Amity 

Oneness 

Union 

Agreement 

Liberty 

Rejoicing 

Health 



Suspicion 
Agitation 
Animosity 

Divorce 

Schism 

Contradiction 

Obligation 

Sorrow 

Disease 



HARMONY, as the Truth of Love, versus DISCORD, as 

a False Concept. 

Discord is mortal confusion because of not understanding 
harmony. It comes from false imagination, apart from the 
law of orderliness. When we abide within the spiritual law 
of perfect thoughts which are states of true consciousness we 
escape the confusion of discord. Discord is a falsehood, for 
there is no discord in perfect principle, and principle contains 
all that there is about anything. Discord is evil imagination, 
be it of mathematics, music, or thoughts as states of spiritual 
being; any evil imagination about anything whatsoever outside 
the law of truth has no reality or being and hence is discordant 
in thought action. 

Discord as a mortal concept is one of wrong and should re- 
veal the fact of unlawful use of our dominion of thought ac- 



126 The Christ-Law 

tion, from which we must at once retrace our way into lawful 
thoughts within the perfect ideas of good and harmony. 

Discord is a false mortal interpretation through the testi- 
mony of sense about some condition of material appearance; it 
is a testimony of confusion and in this way do we sense discord 
— none of the sense testimony is apart from discord, and not 
until we come to know the law and abide therein will discord 
disappear. 

PEACE, the Love of Harmony, versus OFFENSE, as a 

Hate Concept. 

Offense is the sting of self consciousness, because it is an 
unlawful state of being apart from God as the law of good. 
When we get away from self as a power and right and know 
the law in which we have being then we are released from this 
state of selfishness called offense. 

The offensive self is no longer believed to be something 
worthy of defense, but is known as an unlawful false appear- 
ance through the action of sense-mind instead of lawful mind. 
Offense is certainly no part of the perfect law of peace, and 
gives us no good state of being in which is life action. There- 
fore we have no right to offense, neither to be offensive to 
others, for peace alone will bring us into touch with heaven. 

UNITY, the Truth of Harmony, versus DIVISION, as a 

False Concept 

Division is destruction; for unity within the law alone is 
strength. No number of evil, aggressive, selfish beliefs out- 
side of the law of good have any strength at all, for ten thou- 
sand times nothing is no more than nothing. Right ideas are 
united into one vast sea of intelligence, filling all space as a 
law of presence, which is known to us and conceived by us as a 
power of Spirit in the right of law. This is not divided against 
itself, neither can the mortal sense of division assail it in an 
effort to gain recognition. Unity is the power and might of 
spirit and is ours also to have. 



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FREEDOM, the Life of Harmony, versus BONDAGE as a 

Death Concept. 

Bondage is the false concept of impotent might, as if strength 
could be weakness. When we abide within the mortal thought 
or sense-mind we discover its limitations and impotence; that is 
when we use our God-given action of life in mind upon the 
impotent suggestions of sensations, therein we are held in bond- 
age to mortality. But when we arise into the expression of 
the Christ-law then we find ourselves free. 

All mortal sensations are bondage and impotent, while all 
spiritual thoughts within the law are freedom and peace. To 
recognize mortal laws is bondage and fear, but to understand 
spiritual law is freedom. 

TRUST, the Life of Peace, versus SUSPICION, as a 

Death Concept. 

Suspicion seems to be a thought, but is not a thought, for 
nothingness is that which it is intended to express, and we all 
know that nothingness cannot be thought, known or expressed. 

It suggests the absence of truth as nothing, without sub- 
stance or being; therefore it is a false thought or belief, as an 
inaction of mind. 

Suspicion is our concept of mortality, and we well know 
that we cannot trust it because we cannot think it as some- 
thing, and it being unthinkable cannot be known. We find 
that we can trust the perfect ideas of the law, for they ex- 
press right states of being which can be thought, known and 
understood. 

QUIETUDE, the Love of Peace, versus AGITATION, as a 

Hate Concept. 

Agitation is a false concept through material sensations. 
We experience these things and fear them because we do not 
understand them. This fear is the false interpretation which 
destroys our quietude. 



128 The Christ-Law 

We must learn to give the one interpretation of the life- 
love- truth-meaning to things then we shall not be agitated. 

When we learn of the quietude and certainty of right ex- 
pression in the law, our falsity in mind will be eliminated, 
which will be greatly to our profit, for agitation hides our 
concept of quietude. 

AMITY, the Truth of Peace, verses ANIMOSITY, as a 

False Concept. 

Animosity is resistance because of offense, and both of them 
are illegal and useless because outlawed as mortal fury. They 
cannot be thought, neither known as states of being, for they 
are false in intent and nature. 

Animosity acts as a blind to us and keeps us from seeing the 
friendship which otherwise might exist greatly to the good of 
everyone. The good is ever in our midst, if we will but open 
our eyes and see it instead of the fury of falsity, hate and 
death. 

Animosity is a common mistake and is caused by envy, self- 
ishness and common meanness or fear of the good; we should 
arise above this error. 

ONENESS, the Love of Unity, versus DIVORCE, as a 

Hate Concept. 

Divorce is a mortal state of fear, which represents the car- 
nal mind in its seeming action of right as self-justification. 
It is death in opposition to unity, and a division in which there 
is no strength, neither health nor action of life. It is an imag- 
inary state of temporal being which seems good and right, 
but it is opposed to unity and therefore cannot be according 
to the law. It manifests no love, and we are commanded to 
walk in the Law. 

Divorce is false in its intent and purpose, and has no mean- 
ing of good except the mortal interpretation, which is "anything 
that pleases me." 



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UNION,, the Truth of Unity, versus SCHISM, as a 

False Concept. 

Schism is a false mortal concept of disunion. It is the result 
of intrusions of falsity into our thoughts which make laws 
in opposition to the one righteous law. Mortals establish a 
church and think to make it stand because of dominating and 
repressive church laws, which repressiveness make the hearts 
of its members to fear the church power, and thereby hide 
love from them. A member who obeys the absolute Christ-law 
of love is accused of schism and cast out from the political 
organization as a church, in which the church does not ex- 
press love and is itself a schism of the Christ-law, because of 
its mortal imaginations as repressive laws. 

AGREEMENT, the Life of Unity, versus CONTRA- 
DICTION, as a Death Concept. 

Contradiction is giving to opposition the force of mortal ac- 
tion, and therein judging from a mortal standpoint of self. 
We do not have to contradict error when we learn of its falsity, 
for it is already put down and out forever. Our Master said 
that he had overcome this falsity and it was done for our 
sakes, therefore we are commanded to walk in the law. 

We do hot have to call anyone a liar, for if he lies he is 
one without our calling him one, and if he is not our calling 
him one won't make him a liar. When we learn to abide in 
the law we lose the habit of looking for trouble and cease to 
contradict our neighbor who differs with us. 

LIBERTY, the Truth of Freedom, versus OBLIGATION, 

as a False Concept 

Obligation is a false sense of fear because we think that 
we are in bondage to some person through being indebted to 
them. We take on the sense of servitude, and, forgetting the 
freedom of the Christ-law, we abide in mortal fear of what 
men shall do unto us. 

We cannot understand the mortal sense of obligation, for it 
is fear, and is intended to blind us from a sense of love. But 



130 The Christ-Law 

when our thought is directed to the Saviour, our sense of 
obligation has a very different interpretation; it is not one of 
fear because of a possible injustice from mortal greed, but 
one of trust and love because of knowing that it is absolutely 
just and right and true. 

REJOICING, the Life of Freedom, versus SORROW, 
as a Death Concept. 

Sorrow is a vicious, blinding concept of mortality which 
hides the Christ-love from our hearts and leaves us in the 
dark without hope or peace. We think that we have a right to 
sorrow, and evil tells us that it is wicked not to sorrow. But 
sorrow is not found within the law of the perfect Christ right- 
eousness, and we are commanded to walk in it alone. 

We have no more right to express sorrow than we have to 
express any other death thought which kills our concept of love, 
hence we must get away from these evil suggestions which 
strive to drag us down into death and hell. 

Sorrow is the result of a past hypocritical teaching which 
is ignorant in worldliness, not knowing the Christlikeness of 
love. 

HEALTH, the Love of Freedom, versus DISEASE, as a 

Hate Concept. 

Disease is a falsity which we have no right to possess, and 
would not possess if we did not think about it as we do about 
sorrow, which is that we have a right to disease, also to suffer 
because it is good for us. That is, that out of the hell and 
fury of disease come good for our souls. If this is so, about 
where does God and His goodness come in? Our Master said 
that we could not pick any good fruit from an evil tree. We 
must begin to follow the Christ-law in its purity and learn of 
the good therein, that we may overcome the evil sense testi- 
mony and its lie of disease as right and just. 

Having expelled from consciousness the hold which evil 
thoughts had over us because of our fear of material conditions, 



Harmony 131 

then are we ready to look into the fact of the Christ's goodness, 
as all which we can have and which is worthy of use. These 
right ideas as states of spiritual consciousness which are repre- 
sented in the following tables are not, however, readily under- 
stood until we have given up our fear of anything and of every- 
thing; in fact, given up a concept of fear, for they are all of 
love and love alone. 

These tables are intended to be studied with the intent of 
seeing the Christ meaning in them only, which is the life, love, 
truth of them. Their action in all of its living immutability 
is the one substantial ever-present now of perfect being, uncon- 
taminated with any death, hate or false concepts. 

The First Table is as Follows: 

The truth-perfection of substantial love equals life's active 
Harmony. 

Study this table until you can perceive the Christ meaning 
of this state of being in Harmony, for this is a definition of 
harmony, giving its truth, love and life meaning. This mean- 
ing is that in which we are commanded to walk that we may 
learn to know the Christ in all phases of Mind-action-sub- 
stance-perfection, and in this alone. 

The Second Table. 

The love-substance of perfect Harmony equals life's active 
Peace. 

This is a definition of peace, the one Christ definition or its 
meaning in love, truth and life. Peace is the love of harmony, 
and when we love harmony we will find that it represents peace. 

The work with these tables will teach us to abide in the law 
and will eliminate the habit of including evil as a seeming nec- 
essity in presence, from which we are so earnestly striving to 
eliminate the erroneous concepts which cause us to fear. 

The following pages should be studied in conjunction with 
the Star: 



132 The Christ-Law 

The Tables in the Third Point of the Star of Harmony. 

table one. 

The truth-perfection of substantial Love equals life's active 
Harmony. 

TABLE TWO. 

The love-substance of perfect Harmony equals life's active 
Peace. 

The truth-perfection of perfect Harmony equals truth's per- 
fect Unity. 

The life-action of perfect Harmony equals love's substantial 
Freedom. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Harmony, in the third revelation of Mind, are 
Peace, Unity, Freedom. These three ideas represent Har- 
mony. 

TABLE THREE. 

The life-action of substantial Peace equals truth's perfect 
Trust. 

The love-substance of substantial Peace equals love's substan- 
tial Quietude. 

The truth-perfection of substantial Peace equals life's active 
Amity. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Peace, in the fourth revelation of Mind, are 
Trust, Quietude, Amity. These three ideas represent Peace. 

TABLE FOUR. 

The love-substance of perfect Unity equals life's active One- 
ness. 

The truth-perfection of perfect Unity equals truth's perfect 
Union. 

The life-action of perfect Unity equals love's substantial 
Agreement. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Unity, in the fourth revelation of Mind, are 
Oneness, Union, Agreement. These three ideas represent Unity. 






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table five. 

The truth-perfection of active Freedom equals love's sub- 
stantial Liberty. 

The life-action of active Freedom equals life's active Re- 
joicing. 

The love-substance of active Freedom equals truth's perfect 
Health. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Freedom, in the fourth revelation of Mind, are 
Liberty, Rejoicing, Health. These three ideas represent Free- 
dom. 

The preceding tables represent the Christ-Mind in its com- 
pleteness and perfection, and are given in such a form that we 
can know how and why we know that the Testimony of Spirit 
to our spirit is true. 

The object of these tables is to establish certain right states 
of realization in consciousness which are to be our guide in life 
action. 

Through them are we to become acquainted with the Christ- 
law of perfection and learn how to use these states of true 
being in the progress of experiences here in the world. 

When we learn to use them we will ask of evil to give an 
account of itself according to reality in the law, which it can 
not do because evil is but a suggestion, nothing more, and has 
no being or substances with which to answer, and when we 
discover this fact we shall be free from fear. 

The Relation of the Ideas in the Point of Harmony 

Next come the relation of the ideas of this point as states 
of spiritual consciousness, for we must learn just how to study 
and use them in our living and prevailing against errors. 

Harmony is the eighth stage of spiritual development and 
perception, and is next to the last and final step of understand- 
ing the power of Spirit. 

While it follows directly beyond holiness, nevertheless there 
is one stage of development between them. 

Beginning with peace as a result of being pure in heart, 
we are led into a higher state of understanding substance in 
infallibility as an unchangeable law of good. Having these 



134 The Christ-Law 

two established we are able to receive demonstration, and know 
just what it is and how to demonstrate our problems. 

It will be seen that these are the first ones in the third, 
sixth and ninth points of the Star, and are the related ideas 
in the realms of love, truth, life. They give the order of per- 
ception in demonstration, which is peace, infallibility, demon- 
stration. 

Next, taking unity as the truth of harmony, we find that 
as we gain a consciousness of our oneness with the law are we 
able to realize what control means and possess it in fact. We 
become sagacious in all of our acts, because it is not we our- 
selves who does the works, but the power of the law. 

It will be seen that these ideas are the second ones in the 
third point of the Star in each of the realms of love, truth, life, 
and that they express the order of growth or progress of spir- 
itual thought to be unity, control, sagacity, in our concept of 
sagacity. 

Next taking freedom as the life of Harmony, when we be- 
come free from mortal bondage and learn that mortal imagina- 
tion is not worthy of our allegiance, then we are able to under- 
stand the meaning of power, by abiding in the law, which is 
power; and then we come into the possession of real knowl- 
edge, which is true being. 

These are the third parts of the third point of the Star in 
each realm of life, love, truth, and they express the order of 
growth in understanding knowledge to be freedom, power, 
knowledge. 

Out of the presence of purity and sanctity is peace revealed; 
and from the concept of purity and peace do we receive unity; 
from peace and unity we come into freedom. This reveals the 
ever-present power of mind to make us know through being 
free, for freedom seals our knowing of Harmony. 

Out of immaculateness and virtue comes an understanding 
of trust; and from virtue and trust is quietude revealed; from 
quietude and trust comes the concept of amity; and it is the 
thought of amity which seals our knowing and compels us to 
realize that we are peaceful. 



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From quietude and amity comes the concept of oneness, and 
from amity and oneness is union revealed, and then from one- 
ness and union comes agreement, which seals our knowing of 
unity. 

From union and agreement comes liberty, and from agree- 
ment and liberty is rejoicing made manifest, while from re- 
joicing and liberty comes a concept of health; and it is health 
which makes us know freedom. 

This completes the ideas of the realm of love as far as the 
fourth development of Mind's meaning, but we need not stop 
here, for the way is open to all to proceed as far as it is with- 
in their power to go. 

These ideas of the fourth development give a greater expan- 
sion of thought than the ideas of the third revelation, and so 
it goes on from one circle to another in an ever-increasing num- 
ber of ideas of Mind's meaning, which gives us an undefiled 
language of real purity and cleanness. 

Bible Records as Related to the Law of Harmony. 
The Third Commandment. 

Under the third head of the law is associated the third com- 
mandment. 

Exodus 20:2, 7. (Because) "I am the Lord thy God which 
have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house 
of bondage." Out of the mortality of the children of Jacob, 
into a concept of the spiritual mentalities of the children of 
Israel. Therefore : 

"Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in 
vain, * * * 

To take the name of the Lord is to realize His name and 
know it as a soul experience of His character and nature, which 
is expressed in the law of harmony as the truth of love. 

To understand in consciousness the perfect authority of good 
and realize its unity with our being is certainly not a vain 
knowing on our part, for a thorough understanding of the 
infinite power of good with an ability to express it is our one 
way to find peace, love and joy. 



136 The Christ-Law 

This consciousness of harmony as the expression of peace, 
unity and freedom meets the requirements of the third com- 
mandment, because they are the intended meaning of God as a 
name, a law of perfect love; they certainly convince, satisfy 
and make us to know God's law of right, which is not a vain 
thing to have, but a very great blessing. 

The Third Beatitude. 

In Matt. 5 :5 we read the third beatitude, which is applicable 
to this third head of the law in Harmony: 

"Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth." 

Surely the materially ambitious and those who push them- 
selves forward in the possession of worldly things of matter 
meet with a great deal of opposition and strife from haters 
as the expression of the animal-sense-mind, and seldom gain 
anything aside from confusion and the fury of material wealth. 
But a great blessing comes to those who are able to humble 
this animal-self and exalt the law of the perfect Christ in all 
ways of life-action, love-substance, truth-perfection, for in it 
they shall see clearly to gain the spiritual things of wisdom 
and harmony as the good things obtainable here in the earth. 

Humility in action, in loveableness and cheerfulness will 
surely draw people unto us, and it will gain of the very best 
of their service. The harmony of love's presence expressed by 
any one will be a great joy to all who come in contact with it, 
and these same people will leave their best thoughts and ac- 
tions as well as their goods in the presence of loveliness, gen- 
tleness, cheerfulness, etc., that they may be a blessing to them, 
and coming under the influence of love bring peace, true pos- 
session. 

The Lord's Prayer. 

In the sixth chapter of Matthew, verse 10, we read the third 
section of the Lord's prayer, which is in association with this 
head of the law of Harmony as the truth of love: 

"Thy kingdom come." 

Thy kingdom as the truth of love, the perfected state of love 
in harmony. This perfected love come upon the earth and be 



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made manifest here and now in the form of spiritual harmony; 
that all people may come together in this one state of perfec- 
tion and be at peace with each other and the world. 

God's kingdom as the law of love is that which will bring 
people out of the Egypt of material sense suggestion into real- 
ity, and the good of a righteous life in the true spirit of things. 

The Sermon on the Mount. 

In Matt. 5 :38 Jesus continues his teaching and explains the 
law of harmony to be an absolute ruling of Spirit, which does 
not compromise with mortal man's ways. Herein he begins to 
reverse the law of Moses, which reads an eye for an eye and 
a tooth for a tooth; this justice is an exchange of evil to both 
and therein is not justice, as the truth of right or good, for 
there is no good in either one. But Jesus says to resist not 
evil, with the evil mortal sense of justice, which so subtly covers 
real justice of the spiritual law. He says that no matter how 
much evil appears unto us that we must stand firm in our ex- 
pression of the good only. 

Jesus says for us not to "resist evil" with self power, but 
to overcome it with expressions of love. Again he says to "resist 
evil" with good and expressions of love, and it will flee from us ; 
these statements are one in meaning and are according to an 
absolute law of one perfect way. 

In verse 43 he reverses the law of Moses again, wherein 
we are commanded to love our neighbor and hate our enemy; 
but Jesus says to love, and to love our enemy as well as our 
friend, for love is the absolute law. 

There is nothing else which we can do. He makes it very 
explicit in the following verses that we are always to love 
under all circumstances, that we may be truly children of love 
expressing loveliness as the substance of obedience. Then he 
points out the Father's love as an example for us to follow, be- 
cause he says that the Father sends His rain upon the just 
and also upon the unjust and makes the sun to shine upon 
the evil as well as the good and obedient, and we must be like 
the Father in order to be His reflection and image. 



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Jesus says that if we love only those who love us that there 
is no reward in this, no reward of having resisted the evil of 
not loving, which reward is the love expressed. Jesus says that 
the publicans, those of the mortal consciousness who live in the 
expression of good and evil, do this kind of loving those who 
love them, but for us not to be like publicans. Then he com- 
mands us to be absolutely perfect, even as our Father is perfect 
in His expression of the law of love as harmony. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

RIGHTEOUSNESS 

the Love of Truth. 

The Law of Perfection as the Will of God. 

The Unfolding of the Law in the Diagram of the Star of Bethle- 
hem. 

The original Star of Bethlehem, as an illuminating and guiding 
light, led the shepherds and the wise men to the Christ child, 
who came into this world to give unto mortals his life of per- 
fection in exchange for theirs' of imperfection. To-day there has 
come into being another star as a diagram of the law of the word 
of God which reveals the relation and association of the Christ 
ideas as states of spiritual being in Mind, which are reflected in 
us as states of consciousness. 

This diagram also is to be known as the Star of Bethlehem, 
"The light within the house of bread." For it will lead men into 
a knowledge of the Christ-Mind in its absolute perfection ; and 
this is true about it, if it is God's will that it should appear, 
then no human power can overcome it, but if not then it shall 
not prevail. 

When the Christ was upon the earth represented in the flesh 
he said, "The Father and I are one." Also, "I am the way, the 
truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me." 
Herein is the law of righteousness revealed, for when we take 
away from Mind the Christ-meaning of the supreme law of life, 
love, truth, we have eliminated the very means by which alone 
we can obtain an interpretation of Mind and understand it. 

For apart from the life-love-truth-meaning of Mind there is 
none to be found which we can understand, because the life-ac- 
tion, love-substance, truth-perfection interpretation covers every 
phase of Mind being that can be conceived. 



140 The Christ-Law 

This reveals a demand of the law which is everywhere present 
and must pertain to every idea of Mind ; which is, that three ideas 
shall be given as substitutes for the life-action, love-substance, 
truth-perfection-meaning in order to reveal the perfect Christ- 
law in ideas as things. 

Therefore, in the same way that the Father and the Christ- 
meaning of the Father are one — that is, the Father and His will 
or law are one — so also is the Christ and the Christ-meaning one, 
as given in infinite ideas of the law of absolute perfection. 

"I am the way, the truth and the life." Herein is the law of 
Mind established, for if Mind requires three other ideas to give 
it meaning, then every idea of mind in every integral part as a 
unit of truth must follow the same law, hence the way must be 
through Mind or Spiritual ideas as states of consciousness, and 
the truth must be these states of spiritual being as a law of 
perfection; and the life must be their active expression in con- 
science, all of which is the Christ-meaning of God. 

"No man cometh unto the Father but by me." This must 
mean that no man can gain an understanding of the Father except 
through the Christ-meaning as given in infinite ideas of life- 
action, love-substance, truth-perfection, for this law of perfect 
idea entities represents the Christ-Spirit of infinite goodness and 
love. 

The portrayal of the principle of perfect idea entities as 
given in the Star of Bethlehem reveals our true consciousness 
as living within the Christ-Mind, wherein alone there is under- 
standing and knowledge. 

When we awake to the realization that our life and its living 
is a state of spiritual being alone, as an active mentality, gov- 
erned and controlled absolutely by this absolute law of righteous- 
ness which expresses the will of good in its life-love-truth-way, 
then we shall find our real selfhood in the image of Christ's per- 
fection. 

From foregoing chapters we already know that this law is 
applicable and practical in its use here and now, and that it will 
prevail against every error when known ; also that it can be sure- 
ly and certainly learned in perfection and used scientifically to 



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work out our life problems, and thereby gain the protection which 
comes with knowing these ideas as laws. 

When the day comes in which we arise and know that we are 
not material, but are spiritual mentalities only, because we live 
in mind only — that is, within the soul expression of these right 
ideas, and that when expressing them we are like them and are 
them expressed, and that there is no power anywhere that can 
destroy this expression when once known, for it is supreme in its 
perfection — then we shall come into our God-given dominion and 
be master of ourselves and all conditions around us. 

This law of righteousness as portrayed in the Star of Bethle- 
hem expresses the allness, presence and power of Mind as seated 
within our secret place of knowing, and herein only is it to be 
found and understood. 

Many minds have supplied many interpretations for the law 
of righteousness as one truth; but regardless of this the law it- 
self is still one perfect state of being, which has one perfect 
meaning as that of life-action, love-substance, truth-perfection 
for all things within the universe. 

When the time comes that we all know this fact of one mean- 
ing and use it exclusively, then shall we all come together and 
be of one mind in one place of conscience, and be at peace with 
each other. 

Our own laws will be laid aside as very unprofitable, and the 
one law of the Christ righteousness will be substituted for them 
and will be found to prevail in manifesting good always. 

In Matt. 12:30 we read, "He that is not with me is against 
me, and he that gathereth not with me scatter eth abroad." 

He that is not heart and soul in the expression of the Christ 
law of righteousness, giving his absolute allegiance thereto, is 
against it, for there is no dishonest honesty, no imperfect truth 
and no divided allegiance which has or can have any real being. 
He that gathereth not true knowledge through expression 
of the ideas of this law of one righteousness in its life-love-truth- 
meaning alone, scattereth abroad the imperfect sense concepts of 
death and error. 

The order of the construction of the Star of Bethlehem is 
life, love, truth, within the realm of Love, and love, truth, life, 



142 The Christ-Law 

within the realm of Truth, and truth, life, love, within the realm 
of Life. This order gives an evenly balanced star, for no two 
like ideas come together unbalanced. This arrangement proves 
the way of the law; in fact, it cannot be arranged in any other 
way, and this order is carried out into infinite expression of 
Mind's being through the ever-repeated life-love-truth-meaning. 

That Mind is all power is shown in the following facts about 
this law as represented in the Star. Now love cannot seal itself 
within our conscience and make us to know, but our conscience 
is sealed through love's perfection as represented in harmony; 
therefore truth as perfection seals our consciousness of love's 
presence. In the same way truth is sealed and made manifest 
and knowable by its life idea or dominion. And life is sealed 
and made knowable through its love idea as wisdom. 

Love is made manifest and introduced by its life idea of obedi- 
ence; and truth is made manifest and introduced by its love idea 
of righteousness ; while life is made manifest and introduced by 
its truth idea of intelligence. 

It will help the reader to trace these relations out upon the 
diagram of the Star and thereby get acquainted with its structure. 

The Construction of the Star of Bethlehem. 

This nine-pointed star is composed of three triangles, one 
each of life, love, truth; and as the allness of Mind is within 
each and every idea then each of these ideas of life, love, truth 
must contain its just and due portion of the other two. For the 
sake of illustration let us consider that the triangle of love has 
one point of life, another of truth and another of love. Now, 
having three triangles, one each of life, love, truth, and each of 
these divided into a life point, a love point and truth point, by 
placing one triangle on top of the other we get a nine-pointed 
star. This gives us three points to form a realm of love; three 
more to form a realm of truth, and three more to form a realm 
of life. Each realm to contain a representative of life, love, 
truth. 

Herein is the development of Mind shown to be a law, for even 
as Mind is divided into its life-love-truth-meaning, just in the 



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same way must love as an idea of Mind be divided into its life- 
love-truth-meaning also. By this plan we have the life of love, 
the love of love, the truth of love, using three points of the Star 
to express the realm of love, and in like manner is the realm of 
truth represented, and the realm of life also. 

Therefore the first development or offspring from Mind equals 
life, love, truth ; the second development of Mind's meaning is the 
same law repeated, for the life of love, the love of love and the 
truth of love are direct offsprings from love and express the 
Christ- meaning of Love. 

Now we have come to the point where we must consider the 
meaning of life, love, truth, before we can go further with our 
development of Mind's meaning; and the following table will 
give us the clue to our further progress. 

The action of Mind equals Life. 
The substance of Mind equals Love. 
The perfection of Mind equals Truth. 

These three concepts reveal the first revelation of just what 
Mind means to us, and establishes the law of spiritual interpreta- 
tion; for every idea is to receive its spiritual meaning from 
three other ideas which act as its counterparts, or other self; and 
are to serve the purpose of giving to it the meaning of life-ac- 
tion, love-substance, truth-perfection. In this way is every idea 
as a state of consciousness given one definite meaning of life, love, 
truth. For this is the one and only meaning which can be given 
and which we can understand; it is all sufficient, convincing, sat- 
isfying and final in its testimony, and it cannot be overcome, 
neither denied. 

The Realm of Love. 

Therefore each and every idea must have its counterparts^ and 
in furtherance of this plan we find that the demand of the law 
in the process of its self development requires that we furnish 
an idea in consciousness which will meet the requirements of and 
fulfill the meaning of the life of love; that is, what idea entity 
as a state of conscious being will fulfill the required demands of 
the life or action of love? We find without question that Obedi- 



144 The Christ-Law 

ence is that required state of consciousness, for it certainly is an 
act of love. Now in this way is the name and its meaning sup- 
plied to the first point of the Star in the realm of love. Next 
the demand of the law is for an idea that will satisfy and fulfill 
the meaning of the love of love, and we find that Holiness is the 
very substance of good as the love of love. There still remains 
one point within the realm of love to be named, which is the 
point of the truth of love; this is fulfilled and satisfied by the 
idea of Harmony, for where there is true love there is harmony. 
Therefore the spiritual or Christ-meaning of love is Obedience, 
Holiness and Harmony, and it cannot have any other in the 
second revelation of Mind, for these represent its life-love-truth 
meaning. 

Obedience as life within the realm of Love. 
Holiness as love within the realm of Love. 
Harmony as truth within the realm of Love. 

These are the three heads of the law within the realm of Love. 

The Realm of Truth. 

In the realm of truth we are required to find a symbol that will 
represent the love of truth. Righteousness as the substance of 
right is the love-substance of truth, without any doubt, and gives 
a name to the fourth point of the Star. 

Next is required a symbol to represent the state of conscious- 
ness of the truth of truth, and Principle covers all that is re- 
quired, for it is the absolute and perfect truth. 

Last of all within the realm of truth we are to supply an idea 
to fulfill the demands of the life of truth. This idea is to repre- 
sent the absolute prevailing of the law, and Dominion meets this 
demand. 

Therefore the spiritual or Christ-meaning of truth is Right- 
eousness, Principle, Dominion; it can have none other, for these 
express the one meaning of love, truth, life. 

Righteousness as love within the realm of Truth. 
Principle as truth within the realm of Truth. 
Dominion as life within the realm of Truth. 



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These three ideas are the heads of the law in the realm of 
Truth. 

The Realm of Life. 

Next comes the realm of life, and we are required to find an 
idea which will satisfy and fulfill the meaning of the truth of 
life. This is supplied in Intelligence, for there is no life without 
intelligence and to be life it must be perfect. 

Next we are required to furnish a symbol for the life of life, 
which is satisfied at once by the consciousness of Being for to be 
is the very living of life action. 

Next comes the last idea as a head of the law. It is to fulfill 
the demand of the love of life, and Wisdom meets this demand, 
for wisdom is the substance of life-action in the knowing of all 
ideas. 

Therefore the spiritual or Christ-meaning of life is Intelli- 
gence, Being, Wisdom; and there is none other, for these repre- 
sent the truth-life-love-meaning. 

Intelligence as truth within the realm of Life. 
Being as life within the realm of Life. 
Wisdom as love within the realm of Life. 

These ideas are the heads of the law in the realm of Life. 

The Associated Meaning of the Life-Love-Truth Concepts. 
First, the Concepts of the Active Life Ideas. 



OBEDIENCE. 
The life of love. 



DOMINION. 
The life of truth. 



BEING. 

The life of life. 



The active working will of good; to 
manifest the living substance of the 
Father-Mind or Spirit. 

The active working will of good; to 
manifest the active perfection of the 
Father-Mind or Spirit. 

The active working will of good; to 
manifest the life energy of the Father- 
Mind or Spirit. 



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Second, the Concepts of the Substantial Love Ideas. 



RIGHTEOUSNESS. 
The love of truth. 



WISDOM. 

The love of life. 



HOLINESS. 
The love of love. 



The substantial presence of good ; to 
manifest the substantial perfection of the 
Father-Mind or Spirit. 

The substantial presence of good; to 
manifest the substantial action of the 
Father-Mind or Spirit. 

The substantial presence of good; to 
manifest the substantial body of the 
Father-Mind or Spirit. 



Third, the Concepts of the Perfected Truth Ideas. 

The perfect perfection of good ; to mani- 
fest the perfect action of the Father-Mind 
or Spirit. 



intelligence. 

The truth of life. 



HARMONY. 
The truth of love. 



PRINCIPLE. 

The truth of truth. 



The perfect perfection of good ; to mani- 
fest the perfect substance of the Father- 
Mind or Spirit. 

The perfect perfection of good ; to mani- 
fest the perfected state of the Father- 
Mind or Spirit. 



It will be seen that there are three ideas of life-action, and 
three ideas of love-substance, also three ideas of truth-perfec- 
tion. These are arranged in progressive order as to their power 
of being; at least as to our gaining a perception of them, for we 
gain our perception of God in progressive steps as a matter of 
spiritual growth ; this comes to us in an orderly way according 
to a perfect principle of procedure and we find it to be perfectly 
satisfying and final in our consciousness of law. 

The Relation of the Nine Heads of the Law. 

From the consciousness of obedience (the life action of love 
substance) is holiness (love's substance) revealed, as a result of 
Mind's action upon substance. 



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From the consciousness of obedience (the life action of love 
substance) and holiness (love's substance) is harmony (the 
truth perfection of love substance) revealed, as a result of Mind's 
action upon substance perfected. 

From the consciousness of holiness (love's substance) and har- 
mony (the truth perfection of love substance) is righteousness 
(the love substance of truth perfection) revealed, as a result of 
Mind's substance perfected. 

Here we see that the second and third points of the Star within 
the realm of love are combined together to form the first one 
within the realm of truth. Thus sealing the realms of love and 
truth together, for the love which we learned in the realm of 
love is carried over into the realm of truth to begin that realm. 

From the consciousness of righteousness (the love substance of 
truth perfection) is principle (truth's perfection) revealed, as a 
result of Mind's substantial perfection. 

From the consciousness of righteousness (the love substance of 
truth perfection) and principle (truth's perfection) is dominion 
(the life action of truth perfection) revealed, as a result of 
Mind's substance and perfection in action. 

From the consciousness of principle (truth's perfection) and 
dominion (the life action of truth perfection) is intelligence (the 
truth perfection of life-action) revealed, as the result of Mind's 
perfection in action. 

Herein we see that the second and third points of the Star in 
the realm of truth are combined together to produce the first 
point in the realm of life. Thus sealing the realms of truth and 
life together, for the truth which we learned in the realm of 
truth is carried over into the realm of life to begin that realm. 

From the consciousness of intelligence (the truth perfection of 
life action) is being (life's action) revealed as a result of Mind's 
perfect action. 

From the consciousness of intelligence (the truth perfection of 
life action) and being (life's action) is wisdom (the love sub- 
stance of life action) revealed, as a result of Mind's perfection 
and action substantiated. 



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From the consciousness of being (life action) and wisdom (the 
love substance of life action) is obedience (the life action of love 
substance) revealed, as a result of Mind's active substance. 

Herein we see that the second and third points of the Star 
within the realm of life are combined together to produce the 
first point in the realm of love. Thus sealing the realms of life 
and love together, for the life which we learned within the realm 
of life is carried over into the realm of love to begin that realm. 

This relation of the nine heads of the law gives us a continu- 
ous concept of Mind's meaning from obedience around to obedi- 
ence again ; for it takes a complete circle to give a full meaning 
of Mind; and it is necessary to be full and complete in meaning. 
One idea in consciousness must reveal the other one next to it, 
and in this way we have one continuous concept of Mind on a 
larger scale with each circle's revelation. 

We must make an effort to perceive clearly and understand 
the three stages of our development in passing through one com- 
plete concept as the attainment of a right idea, and especially of 
these heads of the law. 

The Nine Stages of Spiritual Perception. 

Beginning with obedience as the life of love, we find that it 
is really our first start towards the understanding of spiritual 
things, and ;s in degree the physical perception or perception 
while in the physical. 

From this attainment of obedience which is apt to be rather 
crude at first we gain a concept of its possibilities and with 
practice we are sure to improve and realize its purport and ad- 
vantage to us, so that eventually we become obedient knowingly. 
And from this state of consciousness we are led into the second 
stage of realization of life's action. Which is high above that 
of obedience, and is a resulting state of being obedient; it con- 
tains all of obedience and more, for it is absolute dominion as 
the life of truth. When we arrive at this stage of life's action 
we are expected to put it in practice and be master of all situa- 
tions; it is the use of our knowing which we have gained made 
manifest in works. Having gained these two states of being in 
life action, then we are worthy and ready to enter into life as the 






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state of the life of life or Being, this is the highest state and 
concept of life which we can obtain here, and it will put us to 
the trial of our very best efforts to attain it even here. 

Next comes the second stage of our progress still on a higher 
plane of existence ; and beginning with righteousness as the love 
of truth, we find that it is the beginning of the realm of love, 
and is the result of having gained life action, which produces 
love substance. This first degree of love is found to be a con- 
cept of right, for right is our first understanding of that which 
is good, and of course we know that good is love ; this right as 
a perfect law is found to be expressed in the right ideas of the 
Christ-law only. It is attained by us in proportion to our ex- 
pression of these ideas as states of consciousness. Hav- 
ing gained the expression of some of these we are then ready to 
know the second stage of our growth in love and find it in wis- 
dom; for wisdom is the expression of all these perfect idea 
entities, and surely we become wise in the proportion to our 
expression of them. From an attainment of wisdom, that is, an 
honest living of these ideas, we are prepared to understand 
what is meant by holiness, the third and highest state of love; 
for without a concept of right we could not know right ideas in 
wisdom, and gain thereby true holiness. 

Next comes the third and last stage of our spiritual perception 
in being educated to understand God and His absolute law of 
perfection, for in truth we gain the final concepts of the perfect 
law. 

Beginning with intelligence as the truth of life, we find that 
it is a resulting state of being from that which we have already 
learned, for intelligence is the law in action, and by the law is 
meant love or holiness. When we gain a concept and expression 
of holiness in action then are we fitted to realize the second stage 
in the realm of truth which is harmony, and harmony from the 
spiritual standpoint cannot be gained rightfully except through 
this progress of the law's way. Having gained harmony, that 
harmony which is of the soul, not that of material sense, we are 
qualified to understand principle the highest knowledge of God 
obtainable. 



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These nine degrees of the life-love-truth-meaning of the Christ- 
law are to be studied very carefully step by step, so that we 
may surely gain each state of our growth and know each one as 
a step in progress, and also realize just where we are in the 
ladder of assent up to God. It is the oneness of the law which 
we are to find, by finding the individual members each to be 
one state of good in perfection. This represents the truth which 
Jesus said we were to know and by means of which we were to 
be made free from every thing apart from the law's expression. 

How to Know This Head of the Law. 

In what way can we master this head of the law of righteous- 
ness, and gain an added power of mind-action because of know- 
ing the law? 

Righteousness is the law of holiness made perfect, for right- 
eousness is the law of holiness and harmony combined. 

We continue with our concept of freedom in the point of har- 
mony to a concept of judgment in the point of righteousness, and 
they are both active thoughts and similar in that respect. 

To understand this point of the Star as one of the heads of 
the law we must learn the Christ-meaning of righteousness. Judg- 
ment as the life-action of righteousness is the right judgment of 
all things; that is, right as a fixed law judges all things in its 
sure prevailing. Honesty as the love substance of righteous- 
ness is the foundation of this head of the law, and must be used 
by us all in our effort to rise above error. Justice is the per- 
fected state of righteousness, and stands for right as an absolute 
law, from which there is no appeal. 

This point of righteousness is dedicated especially to the law, 
for the Tightness of one right is the absolute law of all spiritual 
being; it represents perfect right as the holiness of good and love. 

To realize this law as expressed by righteousness we begin 
with judgment which exists within our consciousness as an ability 
to distinguish between the testimony of sense and soul interpre- 
tations, between that which produces disobedience and obedience; 
for judgment is a continued realization of freedom; one is the 
life-action of harmony and the other is the life-action of right- 



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151 



eousness, which means a liberty to choose untrammeled as a ra- 
tional choice in reason. Judgment is a soul realization of the 
perfect as right, overcoming the imperfect as wrongs therein 
revealing love. When we once have this state of consciousness as 
the love of righteousness established we find honesty present to 
fulfill its perfect meaning. Its presence is there because of the 
compelling power of good in its irresistible attraction unto us, 
for the integrity, morality, and uprightness in honesty always 
leads us into peace and love which reveals the body of the law 
of holiness. 

Finally our knowing is sealed by justice in its concept of fair- 
ness, equity and justification as the perfect right in one law of 
good. 

Righteousness is surely a law, for right is one of the first 
concepts which we get acquainted with, and it stays with us 
all of our days; it is our standard of good and we seek its pre- 
vailing for ourselves even when willing to be blind to that which 
the other man gets. Right is an uncompromising law and knows 
no partiality to anyone. 



Table of Comparison of Good and Evil Ideas in the 
Law of Righteousness. 



Judgment 
Compromise 



Righteousness ■ Honesty 



Error 



Hypocrisy 

Justice 
Imposition 



{Rationality 
Choice 
Reason 

{Integrity 
Morality 
Uprightness 

!' Fairness 
Equity 
Justification 



Futility 

Undiscernment 

Enigma 

Duplicity 
Sacrilege 
Fraud 

Partiality 

Artifice 

Imputation 



RIGHTEOUSNESS, the Love of Truth, versus ERROR, as a 

Hate Concept. 
Error is the mortal concept of that which seems to be wrong, 
the imaginary mortal concepts about material conditions which 
we think should be accounted as worthy and of benefit. Error, 



152 The Christ-Law 

however, stands for a mistake, even an absence which is not 
present and has no being or power to come into presence, there- 
fore it is nothingness. 

There seems to be a suggestion which appears to be something 
and to be worthy of notice; we are often deceived by this false 
impression and accept nothing as a suggestion for something; 
this is our error and it is all nothingness. All right things are 
present as a law, and their very presence is bound to be right 
when we know law as absolute only. 

Error as a mortal concept is not a concept but an imagination 
of one, and it affects us just in the proportion to our allegiance 
to it in fear, for when we gain the understanding that it is harm- 
less and has no power or being of its own, we lose our fear, and 
cease the use of our mind-action upon it. 

There is one law of righteousness and one only; it is suffi- 
cient for all of our life-actions. Therefore we need no man- 
made laws to help law to be law, neither presence to be present, 
for these mortal laws defile the law of one righteousness and hide 
its purity from us. 



JUDGMENT, the Life of Righteousness, versus COM- 
PROMISE, as a Death Concept 

Compromise is a subtle concept of delay because of conscious 
defeat. Its intent is to escape punishment because of the pre- 
vailing power of the perfect law of judgment in righteousness. 
It would evade justice in the law of right, but there is no compro- 
mise with the law, for we are simply justified or condemned 
according to our doings. This fact is one reason why people get 
careless after making many mistakes; they feel that it is no use 
because they do not have a chance as they call it, that is a chance 
to compromise with the law and work in a little of their error. 

Judgment holds us to the scratch in its wonderful wisdom 
and there is but one thing that we can do; it is to obey the law 
completely. 



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HONESTY, the Love of Righteousness, versus HYPOC- 
RISY, as a Hate Concept. 

Hypocrisy is an effort to combine good and evil for the con- 
venience of using either one which may appear most to our ad- 
vantage. But this is an effort to deceive and to make nothing- 
ness into something which is to fit our desire. For instance we 
try to substitute an imagination for a truth, often for the purpose 
of saving ourselves only to find that it is all impotent and hope- 
less, and suffer our embarrassment for assuming that which we 
are not. Hypocrisy is the impotent mortal striving to escape 
from itself and pose as something good and desirable, but it has 
neither being, right, substance, nor truth with which to act. 

JUSTICE, the Truth of Righteousness, versus IMPO- 
SITION, as a False Concept. 

Imposition is an evil suggestion of the mortal sense, both 
hateful and selfish in intent and purpose, and is entirely a mortal 
consciousness or imagination, for God did not make it as a part 
of the law. 

The righteous law of God never imposed upon anyone, even 
if it does judge with absolute justice; for in this justice there 
is mercy of the right kind, also care and protection for those who 
obey the law. 

Imposition is the result of imperfect or incomplete interpreta- 
tion, and because it is not absolute law it imposes on some one; 
this is the fact with all mortal laws and there is no help but 
to obey the one law. 

RATIONALITY, the Truth of Judgment, versus FUTIL- 
ITY, as a False Concept. 

Futility is a mortal consciousness of its own impotence, and 
is one of the sources from which we get our suggestion of evil. 
Futility is meaningless to the child of God, who knows the law 
of righteousness as prevailing everywhere. Futility is a death 
thought and would have you cease your being, even all your 
effort to do things. We get tangled up with this unlawful sense 



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of futility as an experience with nothingness, believing it to be 
something mighty and dreadful, and accept it as stronger than 
we are when it is helpless to prevail against us. 

CHOICE, the Life of Judgment, versus UNDISCERN- 
MENT, as a Death Concept. 

Undiscernment is that blinded and helpless way of mortals in 
not trying, the death of being satisfied not to reach forth and 
prevail. It is the sin of stupidity put in practice continually. 
An undiscerning mind which is not able to choose but drifts 
along without effort to gain its rightful selfhood and live. 

Choice within our consciousness is not between good and evil 
but is the declaring of the allness of one right, which always 
prevails in the truth of things which go to make up our lives. 

REASON, the. Love of Judgment, versus ENIGMA, as a 

Hate Concept. 

Enigma is a state of confusion of the mortal consciousness, 
and does not express mind-action for it has no meaning to ex- 
press. As an enigma it is a suggestion only without substance, 
without understanding, and cannot be thought, known, or under- 
stood. 

It attracts our attention and then distracts our thoughts because 
we are disappointed at finding nothing substantial. An enigma 
cannot be placed in mind and is wholly without being. 

Reason speaks at once of the law of good and right, and 
places us upon a sound foundation wherein we can abide in faith 
and trust; because reason is a part of the righteous law of the 
Christ, and through it we arrive at the truth of true being. 

INTEGRITY, the Life of Honesty, versus DUPLICITY, 

as a Death Concept. 

Duplicity is an expression of the dead mortal sense-mind, for 
it is not found in the law of the Christ. Duplicity is being de- 
ceitful for the sake of personal gain at our neighbor's expense, 
if we did but know that that which we gained was death and the 



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destruction of our soul's understandings then we would not be 
so quick to practice duplicity. The self-will in deeds of du- 
plicity and deceit covers the will of good in fhe Christ-law, and 
buries us deep in mortality where we experience the confusion 
of fear, also the darkness of self sufficiency and ability to main- 
tain our own ways. The chaos of duplicity in our lives as that 
which opposes the honesty of the law must be overcome by under- 
standing what it is. 

MORALITY, the Love of Honesty, versus SACRILEGE, as 

a Hate Concept. 

Sacrilege is a mortal imagination of a right to do as one 
pleases ; that is, to live the carnal mortality without any restraint. 
For sacrilege does not recognize a higher power than its own 
will, and is guided entirely by its own selfish interests. It has 
no concept of things sacred and no respect for anything except 
mortal force greater than itself. Its aim is through hate to defile 
everything good, sweet and pure, and to drag down to its level 
every one who comes in its way, that it may revel in its manifesta- 
tion of hate; we cannot afford to even sense this concept. 

Morality is the gaining of an understanding of the law and 
the respect for it in every way. 

UPRIGHTNESS, the Truth of Honesty, versus FRAUD, 

as a False Concept- 

Fraud is a word which has been coined by mortals to represent 
our imagination that we can mock God's law and succeed. It is 
a belief that we can overcome the law of the Christ righteousness 
and thereby make truth into a lie. Fraud, however, represents 
nothingness and has no power, neither spiritual being of any 
kind. Fraud was not made by the law for our good and given 
unto us that we might express it and live, but is intended to 
hide life, while uprightness is our very life expression. 

FAIRNESS, the Love of Justice, versus PARTIALITY, as a 

Hate Concept. 

Partiality is mortal ignorance of the law of one right, and is 
a prolific cause of confusion and hate among mortals. We are 



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very apt to indulge in this subtle error as a seeming right, but as 
it is nothingness or selfishness we cannot afford to know it, 
neither use it at any time. 

It represents me and mine exalted above the law of universal 
right, the special privilege of the grafting mortal-mind. It is an 
outcome of the money standard from the love of ease and luxury, 
those things of death which are apart from active life in the law 
of good. 

EQUITY, the Truth of Justice, versus ARTIFICE, as a 

False Concept. 

Artifice is nowhere to be found within the law of good; as an 
imagination of mortality it gets us into condemnation through 
foolish beliefs of power unto ourselves, which strives to accu- 
mulate material possessions, believing that they can save us 
from death and fury; when in reality they are the very things 
that bring death and fury. 

For to cheat and destroy a trusting neighbor is death; to take 
advantage of our credulous neighbor because he is not as cautious 
as we are is death; it is fury stored up for the time when all 
shall be fulfilled. 

When all shall be filled full of the good, and all that is evil 
shall cease to have even an appearance of being. 

JUSTIFICATION, the Life of Justice, versus IMPUTA- 
TION, as a Death Concept. 

Imputation is certainly a subtle suggestion, which seems to 
have some being, at least some reason for being; anyway it 
claims to be worthy of our attention, and when we give to it our 
attention we find nothing but a suggestion without substance of 
fact. It was a mere appearance which deceived us for the time 
being and all that we received out of this experience was con- 
fusion in trying to think something which had no meaning. 

Imputation is not within the law of perfect states of being, and 
can not give us anything of lasting good for it is all falsity, and 
there is no truth in it; we must ignore its effort to offend us, for 
it is not worth our while even to recognize it. 



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How to Know Righteousness. 

We are now ready to take up the good and perfect thoughts as 
states of spiritual being, and enter into the kingdom of heaven 
as a place of righteousness and good conscience. Our Master 
said that the kingdom of heaven was within our spiritual con- 
science or soul, and exists as a living expression of the perfect law 
of the Christ. 

He said that we should know this law of truth, through abiding 
in its perfect and continuous expression, and that in so doing 
we would be made free from mortal imaginations of evil as sin. 
In abiding within the soul interpretation of things we shall have 
eyes to see and ears to hear, and shall understand spiritual truth 
as a law which is both good and final. 

Now having gone over the preceding pages and found out that 
evil ideas are not real states of consciousness, for they do not 
express any substance, being suggestions only, then are we ready 
to begin our study of the perfect ideas which have substance as 
spiritual understanding, and therein grow to be pure in heart 
and wise in our expressions. 

The tables of this head of the law are very important to us 
and should be studied earnestly, for righteousness is the combi- 
nation of holiness and harmony. We already know that love is 
the law, but this fact gives us the way of the law, and judg- 
ment, honesty, justice, as counterparts of righteousness are equal 
to righteousness as the law. 

The clearer concept of these ideas that we can get, free from 
mortal imaginations, the nearer will we come to demonstrating 
the law, therefore it is very essential that we do our work on the 
preceding pages carefully and thoroughly. We must strive to 
get rid of our worldly habits and false customs and learn to put 
in their place the good things of the law. We must, however, 
know that judgment is not a mortal choice between good and 
evil, but is the prevailing of right without consideration of evil. 
Honesty is not governed or limited by mortal opinions of it, as 
a state of being. Justice is one universal law of absolute perfec- 
tion and is not contaminated with mortal compromises. Justice 



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as the perfection of the Christ law is not subject to license, 
special privilege, and that at a price. 

The following pages should be studied in conjunction with 
the Star. 

Tables in the Fourth Point of the Star of Righteousness. 

table one. 

The love-substance of perfect Truth equals life's active 
Righteousness. 

TABLE TWO. 

The life-action of substantial Righteousness equals truth's 
perfect Judgment. 

The love-substance of substantial Righteousness equals love's 
substantial Honesty. 

The truth-perfection of substantial Righteousness equals life's 
active Justice. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Righteousness, in the third revelation of 
Mind, are Judgment, Honesty, Justice. These three ideas rep- 
resent Righteousness. 

TABLE THREE. 

The truth-perfection of active Judgment equals love's sub- 
stantial Rationality. 

The life-action of active Judgment equals life's active Choice. 

The love-substance of active Judgment equals truth's perfect 
Reason. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Judgment, in the fourth revelation of Mind, are 
Rationality, Choice, Reason. These three ideas represent Judg- 
ment. 

TABLE FOUR. 

The life-action of substantial Honesty equals truth's perfect 
Integrity. 

The love-substance of substantial Honesty equals love's sub- 
stantial Morality. 



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The truth-perfection of substantial Honesty equals life's 
active Uprightness. 

Therefore the counterparts or developed meaning of the Christ- 
Mind of Honesty, in the fourth revelation of Mind, are Integrity, 
Morality, Uprightness. These three ideas represent Honesty. 

TABLE FIVE. 

The love-substance of perfect Justice equals life's active Fair- 
ness. 

The truth-perfection of perfect Justice equals truth's perfect 
Equity. 

The life-action of perfect Justice equals love's substantial 
Justification. 

Therefore the counterparts or developed meaning of the Christ- 
Mind of Justice, in the fourth revelation of Mind, are Fairness, 
Equity, Justification. These three ideas represent Justice. 

In these tables is the law of the perfect Christ-Mind expressed, 
and are to be studied until our conscience becomes moulded in 
their image and likeness. That we may overcome the evil sug- 
gestions which oppose them through every material appearance. 

These states of consciousness as states of spiritual being can- 
not be too carefully committed to memory, and then practiced 
until we become proficient in their use. The more skilled in 
their application to our problem of life that we become the 
nearer to right living will we attain. 

The Relation of Ideas in the Point of Righteousness. 

Now come the relations of the ideas within the fourth point 
of the Star and how to study them so that they may be fixed in 
consciousness, also how to realize their power so that we can 
defend ourselves against evil thoughts. 

Righteousness is the fourth stage of spiritual perception and 
development; and is the first concept of love as good. For right 
is the beginning of our knowing of God as good. Having 
gained the concept of one spiritual right uncontaminated with 
mortality in any of its imaginations of evil, then we are able to 



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gain the next higher concept of wisdom as the love substance of 
life, for wisdom is the aggregate of all right or perfect ideas in 
the Christ-law. When we have progressed this far we are able 
and qualified to understand the love of love as holiness, the 
third and highest stage of our concept of right as absolute law. 

Returning to the point of righteousness, we find that judg- 
ment is the life-action of righteousness; which does not consider 
wrong in any way. 

Judgment is the law of right in its spiritual prevailing, and 
with this concept we are prepared to receive in consciousness the 
fact of understanding and gain its perfect being; but without this 
understanding of right as a perfect law we are not able to realize 
truth. This is because the allegiance to two standards of right 
and wrong will confuse us and prevent understanding. When 
we have gained an understanding through knowing judgment as 
one prevailing right then we cannot help but be loyal to this pre- 
vailing law. 

The association of the following words are to reveal the stages 
or states of understanding loyalty, that is its life-love-truth- 
meaning. 

Honesty the love of righteousness is the substance of right, 
and not until we gain the love of the law of right and at the same 
time attain the realization of its attractive power to hold us in 
perfection can we be said to be honest. This love of right or good 
is honesty, and having gained its presence within conscience, we 
surely have a realization of the law, and are prepared to serve 
the law through this state of spiritual consciousness. 

These ideas are the second ones in the fourth, seventh and 
first points of the Star, and express our growing perception of 
honesty, as honest consciousness of service. 

Next we find that justice, the truth of rightousness, is the 
perfected state of right. It being all, then there is no more nor 
less than all, as we grasp this fact we are able to perceive and 
understand that which was made perfect and finished, for the 
law made all that was made. Here we gain a concept of crea- 
tion as the next word in association, and reach out further to 
find that which was created to be loveliness. For love as the 



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law is all that ever was created; love is all creation, made active 
in life and perfected in truth. 

Out of unity and freedom comes the concept of a prevailing 
right of judgment, out of freedom and judgment is the con- 
sciousness of honesty given, and out of judgment and honesty is 
justice as the truth of righteousness revealed in consciousness. 

Out of rejoicing and health comes rationality; from health 
and rationality we get choice as a prevailing power of good ; from 
rationality and choice is reason revealed; from choice and reason 
comes integrity; reason and integrity give forth morality; and 
from integrity and morality is uprightness understood; 
from morality and uprightness comes fairness ; and from upright- 
ness and fairness comes equity; from fairness and equity is given 
forth justification as the life-action of justice. 

Justice as a thought of perfection is the idea and power of 
Mind which seals our consciousness and makes us to know ; that is, 
know justice and righteousness as one state of being in unity 
with the Christ-law. 

Reason seals our concept of judgment, for reason is the posses- 
sion of the concept of love, as good; that which compels a know- 
ing because it is in possession. 

Uprightness seals our concept of honesty, because it is per- 
fected right and has the substance of love, which known as up- 
rightness equals honesty as the love of right. 

Justification is that which seals our concept of justice, for it 
is the life-action of truth which demonstrates its being, and it 
makes us to know because it lives and compels action in reality, 
a state of being which we cannot deny. 

Bible Records as Related to the Law of Righteousness. 
The Fourth Commandment. 

In Exodus 20, 2 and 8, we read (Because) "I am the Lord 
thy God which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out 
of the house of bondage." Out of the bondage which comes 
through allegiance to the deceiving senses, which constantly de- 
mand that we serve all manner of worldly laws; therefore be- 
cause we are delivered we shall: — 



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"Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." 
The living state of righteousness as a law is the time of the 
Sabbath. It is the conscious combination of holiness and har- 
mony and we shall not forget to keep this sacred day or time of 
appointment in special service to the law, that we may realize 
each seventh day a greater revelation of our growth in the law's 
manifestation. 

Jesus kept this day a3 a time of special communion with the 
Father, as a time to go apart from the strife of worldly things 
as material experiences, that he might rest from their fury and 
give his whole time to the expression of the law in righteousness, 
and therein be present with God and absent from the body. 

This consciousness of righteousness as the love of truth, is 
that which sanctifies and purifies us and also that which fulfills 
the requirements of the fourth commandment, which means to 
remember the finished and sanctified law of holiness and har- 
mony, and find peace therein. 

The Fourth Beatitude. 

In Matt. 5 :6, we read the fourth beatitude which refers to this 
point of righteousness as a head of the law: — 

"Blessed are they who do hunger and thirst after righteous- 
ness : for they shall be filled." 

This consciousness of the love of truth will certainly reveal 
the blessing intended in this beatitude. It is because of the 
hunger that we are prepared to receive the blessing and able 
to be filled with understanding, for through declaring and living 
the law shall we be made like it. Herein shall we find all true 
knowledge of good and right. Because the love of truth as the 
hunger and thirst after righteousness will surely keep us in the 
honest service of the God of Love. 

The Lord's Prayer. 

In Matt. 6:10. We read the fourth section of the Lord's 
prayer : — 

"Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven." 



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God's will is that we should love the truth; that is, know the 
law of His perfect righteousness, for this action of mind will 
bring about the presence of the kingdom of heaven within us. 
Because righteousness as the rightness of right is one perfect law 
of good or love, then we cannot honestly and sincerely love truth 
and escape the effect of the law's presence within our conscience 
to perfect it, and His will shall be done here and now while we 
are in this sense experience within this world. 

The Sermon on the Mount. 

In Matt, 6:1, Jesus begins his discourse of the law of one 
right by calling to our minds the result of the choice of being 
honest. He starts out with a caution and warns us to seek a 
unity with Spirit; that is, to get in touch with conscience at 
once, and to avoid material things. Because we are to worship 
in spirit, in the secret place of the soul or conscience, and not 
in the presence of mortals who defile the law. 

This matter of worship is a subject both sacred and holy and 
is between ourselves alone and our Father, and to be real and 
true to Him must be secret with the door to outer darkness closed. 
Jesus tells us that we get our reward from the source of our 
seeking, for really we are just that and no different from what 
we are in intent of heart. 

When we give forth the good gifts which our Father has given 
unto us, it is to be done under the present supervision of the 
Father's knowledge and approval, in exact accordance with His 
dictation in heart and not according to our own desires, likes, 
wishes and interests. Our reward is a conscious unity with the 
law in peace and harmony, wherein rebuke or fear is not known, 
and this reward will surely manifest righteousness. 

In verse 5 we read, "And when thou prayest." That is when 
we declare the law of God's will of perfect righteousness, and 
express it as a soul experience of His right idea entities, it shall 
not be done hypocritically, that is without the kitent of heart of 
honest meaning of good and right, for if we pray through sense 
consideration, the soul cannot be therein, and our prayer is but 
the hypnotism of sense suggestion and there is no reward save 
confusion. Again our reward is just that which we seek in our 



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intent of heart, be it either sense deceit or honest love of the 
law. 

Then Jesus tells us how to pray. We are told to go into the 
secret place of the Most High, into the secret chamber of the 
soul or conscience and to close the door to all material sensa- 
tions, which testify only of the things of outer darkness ; that we 
may be present with the Spirit of the law of righteousness as 
holiness and harmony combined, and therein commune with this 
law in undefiled understanding, that we may know the ways of 
infinite love and good in its purity, and through this knowing we 
shall receive our reward. 

Jesus says that we are not to pray with a noise of the mouth 
only, but with soul realizations of the perfect ideas as states of 
spiritual being in consciousness which will be our reward. For 
the law already knows that we have need of these states of being 
and that we must express them. 

Next follows the full recital of the law given in the Lord's 
prayer. It is all summed up in the living of the law of right; he 
says that if we do not repent from transgressing the law of 
love and forgive our neighbor his transgression of the law of 
love towards us, then there is nothing done by us deserving of 
reward and that we shall not receive any.' He then says that 
the way to get righteous is to do the works of righteousness as a 
perfect law of right being. In this doing we shall find our 
reward. 

In verse 16 he says that when we fast we must be honest 
about it, not as the hypocrites are in deception that they may 
receive reward from men, for this honor from men is all the 
reward that they shall receive, but for us to do our fasting in 
the presence of our Father secretly, with our face washed, and 
in cleanliness of soul that we may be acceptable to Him. 

This whole discourse is one of honesty as the love of right- 
eousness which in turn is the love of truth. The ideas of judg- 
ment, honesty, justice are the counterparts of the law of right- 
eousness and are all to be used to express righteousness, and 
therein manifest the love of truth as the first head of the law 
in the realm of Truth. 



CHAPTER IX. 

PRINCIPLE 

The Truth of Truth. 

The Absolute Spiritual Law of Perfection. 

Principle is the highest concept of the Father-Mind or Spirit 
which we as the children of Mind can have. It includes all of 
the other heads of the law of spiritual being in one perfected 
state. 

This concept of principle is revealed unto us through nine 
stages of spiritual growth from obedience to principle. These 
must not be taken from the mortal sense interpretation of things, 
which comes through an imperf ected sense-concept and is very 
unreliable, but must be taken through the one spiritual interpre- 
tation of immortal law as the right of good which is found alone 
in conscience. 

Principle is the beginning and also the end of all real and 
true understanding as spiritual knowledge; all of that which is 
apart from mortal imagination. It is the one perfected law 
without any omission; it is the center wherein we awake to con- 
sciousness, and is the beginning of our certain knowing of God 
as a perfect law. This concept culminates eventually in infinite 
circumference as the all inclusive body of ideas which are states 
of spiritual being within the law, and which compose the law, 
and these are again but the manifest center. 

Principle is an endless circle of active, substantial and per- 
fected spiritual being; and is a never ending existence of re- 
vealed mental activity. A true spiritual perception of principle 
is gained by us through a progressive understanding of infinite 
creation, which will occupy our time and efforts for all eternity. 
Therefore we need none of us be in a hurry to get it all here 



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and now ; and it will be well to remember that haste makes waste 
and manifests little progress. 

Principle includes all manner of true knowledge which is the 
spiritual perception of the revealed things of God. Those things 
which are given to the children of Israel under the nine heads of 
the law, which are but the divisions of the one complete law, ar- 
ranged in an orderly way of progressive understanding. That 
we may grow systematically and surely into a perfect likeness of 
the law, and learn to give this one right interpretation of things. 
For we must gain an understanding of God as good, and good as 
the law of life-action, love-substance, truth-perfection only. 

The brief and limited way in which the following table is ex- 
plained is because of its far reaching power and inclusiveness of 
all being; it would take volumes to do it justice, so a mere refer- 
ence only is here made with the hope that the future will reveal 
it in perfection. It is about those things which mortals so per- 
sistently call material, but which are in their true being, spir- 
itual, and must so be considered. 

This one thing we must receive in consciousness at the start, 
and hold fast to it all through this presentation of the law, 
namely, that the law is spiritual and considered from that stand- 
point only. No interpretations from the standpoint of the animal 
sense-mind or from the world as matter through this sense-mind 
can be given to a spiritual law. 

1. Obedience as a spiritual law is expressed in the science of 
Physics, as the life-action of love-substance. 

2. Holiness as a spiritual law is expressed in the science of 
Ethics, as the love-substance of love-substance. 

3. Harmony as a spiritual law is expressed in the science of 
Music, as the truth-perfection of love-substance. 

4. Righteousness as a spiritual law is expressed in the science 
of Logic, as the love-substance of truth-perfection. 

5. Principle as a spiritual law is expressed in the science of 
Philosophy as the truth-perfection of truth-perfection. 

6. Dominion as a spiritual law is expressed in the science 
of Mathematics, as the life-action of truth-perfection. 



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7. Intelligence as a spiritual law is expressed in the science 
of Metaphysics, as the truth-perfection of life-action. 

8. Being as a spiritual law is expressed in the science of 
Ontology, as the life-action of life-action. 

9- Wisdom as a spiritual law is expressed in the science of 
Psychology, as the love-substance of life-action. 

These nine heads cover the field of all science and include all 
branches of these heads, each one of which must have three main 
divisions according to spiritual law. 

A brief explanation of the preceding table is herein given, with 
the hope that the future will reveal its full revelation in perfec- 
tion for the use of men and to their very great advantage in truth 
and right. 

Beginning with Obedience as our first concept of spiritual law. 
Herein we find ourselves born in the flesh, given these fleshly in- 
stincts of sensation of matter as a false concept; and in which 
we abide under the bondage of the lusts of mortality as some- 
thing to be destroyed, hence not worthy of life and keeping for 
its profit is nothingness. Nevertheless we are commanded to 
come up out of the darkness of this material interpretation of 
evil in Egypt, and to perceive the true spiritual interpretation 
of things as a perfect law of life-action, love-substance, truth- 
perfection, and it is in this interpretation that these explanations 
are given, with the hope that the reader will perceive the asso- 
ciation. 

Obedience is revealed to us mortals as the science of Physics, 
which is an account of the action of spiritual substance all 
through the universe. We know that as a law it is perfect and 
never fails, even if our mortal concept is erroneous and unable to 
reveal the spiritual. This understanding within the soul of per- 
fect law in action is to constitute our knowledge of what obedi- 
ence is in its perfection. And it cannot be defiled by the mortal 
concept of destructive and imperfect material conditions. 

When we discover this most wonderful law of perfection in 
soul expression of things we become very cognizant of its mighty 
power, and of the fact that it is high above any power or under- 
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Even if our concept of the universe has as yet not risen above 
the false interpretation of matter, still we perceive through this 
haze of sense suggestion that all is spiritual law and that it is 
good, or God. In this way we get our concept of good or love 
as God from observing the perfection of the law of obedience, 
which begins in physical appearance, but soon through reason 
turns to the law of fact and truth. 

Through the science of physics as a means of understanding 
infallible law, we learn that it fills all space and presence only 
when interpreted from the spiritual standpoint, then it becomes 
spiritual law, and is expressed in ideas as states of law which 
fill all space as infinite Mind. 

Now in just the same way that we have gained a concept of 
obedience, through the science of physics as a start in the under- 
standing of spiritual law, so also, we have gained a concept of 
good as love ; for they go together and cannot be separated. Now 
love as holiness represents the base or foundation of the science 
of ethics, the substance of substance. 

Therefore, it may be seen that we go from physics to ethics 
in the same way that we go from obedience to holiness, for it 
is the same one thing but expressed in different terms. Do not 
forget the spiritual interpretation for the material will cause you 
confusion. 

When we combine the active law of obedience in physics with 
the substantial law of ethics as holiness, we find harmony present 
as a song of the soul in the science of music, true substance. This 
harmony as a song of the soul is perceived in physical color, 
symmetry, form, and the like, but more especially in the concept 
of law as spiritual form, rulings, etc. 

In this way we can see clearly that obedience as physics com- 
bined with holiness as ethics is bound to produce true substance 
as harmony, and that it is real and true in its spiritual concept 
only. 

The combination of holiness as the science of ethics, with 
harmony as the science of music, (not the noise made by mortals 
but the song of spiritual love in the soul,) will bring us in 
touch with the science of logic as the law of right thoughts or 



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righteousness, which is the very substance of truth. Logic as 
the science of right thoughts, those of holiness made perfect 
in harmony is our way of righteousness. 

Therefore a combination of ethics and logic as the states of 
being of holiness and harmony show the relation of these three 
states of spiritual being and through them we can surely get 
right. 

The law of music within the soul called harmony as the per- 
fected substance of love, combined with the science of logic as 
the law of right thoughts, will reveal unto us another science as a 
perfect law, for it opens the way for a concept of one truth, which 
is principle or the science of philosophy. 

This concept of one perfection as a supreme law of all things 
spiritual, which are the things real and immortal, is the ultimate 
of all understanding, and is supreme above all knowledge, hold- 
ing it in perfection. 

When we combine righteousness as the science of logic with 
principle as the science of philosophy, we have revealed the 
power of dominion as the science of mathematics, that is, a perfect 
law of infallible controlling power which we may use, and pre- 
vail through its power of perfection in action. 

Principle as the science of philosophy the truth of perfec- 
tion, when combined with dominion in the science of mathe- 
matics as a prevailing law, will reveal and demonstrate intelli- 
gence as the supreme state of Mind in action, through the science 
of metaphysics, for the base of metaphysics is in intelligence. 
It is that all inclusiveness of right thoughts perfected and put 
in action to express the one law of life, love, truth. 

Again in the same way that dominion is combined with in- 
telligence, is also the science of mathematics combined with the 
science of metaphysics to manifest a real law of absolute being, 
that being as spiritual mentality which expresses life-action, love- 
substance, truth-perfection. This state of spiritual being is 
represented by the science of ontology, not from the material 
interpretation but from the spiritual true state of being, which 
is all that can be proven, and proven to be good and perfect. 



170 The Christ-Law 

Again will intelligence as the science of metaphysics com- 
bined with ontology as the science of being, give us the concept 
of wisdom as the true science of psychology, as the soul ex- 
perience and expression of perfect states of spiritual being or 
existence. This concept of psychology must not be confounded 
with that of the sense and soul founded upon two opposing 
standards, which must certainly defeat understanding. We are 
obliged to figure from the standpoint of spiritual expression of 
the soul in its experiences with God's state of perfect being. 

We have to make one more comparison to complete the circle 
and form a combination of ontology as the science of being, 
spiritual being, and that of psychology as the science of wisdom 
expressed in the soul, not of mortal sense; which brings us 
back to physics, spiritualized, or the science of obedience to all 
of God's wonderful law of perfection. 

After the reader has gone over these relations a few times 
they will clear up in his consciousness, and will assume their 
proper place and position also relation to each other. But 
it cannot be too emphatically stated that the mortal sense- 
mind's opinions about this subject has nothing whatever to do 
with what God in his wisdom made. These relations must be 
considered from one standpoint only and wholly, and that must 
be perfectly spiritual, else we will be confused and not under- 
stand. 

These sciences are to be used by us in the progress of our 
daily lives and it must have been intended by our maker that 
we should know them in their perfection and use them each in 
its special capacity and office to work out our problem of getting 
right, and in reaching the kingdom of heaven, which must be 
this perfect knowledge within our soul's expression. 

Let us now take up the relation of these sciences one to an- 
other in each realm of life, love, truth, and go over it in its stages 
of progressive advancement through life-action, love-substance, 
truth-perfection. 

Beginning with physics as obedience, we find an immediate 
demand for mathematics as dominion, they go together and very 
little progress can be attained without this combination, when 



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we have received the proper instruction through the combination 
of these two, then are we ready to understand ontology as 
being; real, true, spiritual existence. 

These represent the three life-action sciences in their three 
stages of perception and gained understanding, with the ultimate 
truth of existence, as a final and satisfying state of spiritual 
being. 

Next comes three more states of spiritual perception on a 
much higher plain, and they demand that we have first obtained 
the understanding of the three in the preceding realms. 

Beginning again with logic as the science of perfect thought or 
soul expression, we find that there is a demand for an understand- 
ing about this soul's experience of spiritual things, expressed in 
the science of psychology, and not until we have mastered this 
association and relation between these two states of spiritual 
being as perfect sciences, will we be worthy and qualified to 
advance to an understanding of ethics as the law or science of 
holiness as the love of love. 

These sciences represent the substance of all being which is 
love, and an understanding of these is gained scientifically, surely 
and in an absolute way, through this progressive procedure of 
three stages of attainment, and in no other way, for there is one 
truth and one way of the Christ law, and he that follows it will 
surely win even by our Master's word. 

The last stages of attainment of spiritual being are represented 
in the sciences of metaphysics as intelligence, soul expressions 
of God's perfect law of life, love, truth. We begin here after 
having gained the foregoing stages in life, and love, and imme- 
diately we find a need of that harmonious song of the soul in its 
perfect love song of peace and joy, for metaphysics without the 
song of love in the soul, as expressed in the science of music or 
harmony is worthless and of none effect. These two come to- 
gether the one to help the other and make a complete whole, 
which is to give us an understanding so pure, as a perfect soul ex- 
pression, that we are eligible and qualified to perceive God. We 
perceive the mighty heights of perfect Principle in all of its 
glory, which is the true philosophy as a science of good and is 



172 The Christ-Law 

the supreme law of God's perfection, which is to us the Father- 
Mind or Spirit. 

From the foregoing we can easily understand that each head 
of the law is contained within all of the others, for it is one 
indivisible whole. 

The essence of none of them is ever omitted even in one perfect 
idea entity, for God is represented in each through the mighty 
power of principle as a supreme law of perfection. Principle 
is the all inclusive law which is supreme and master in all and 
above all, holding each and every one in perfection. 

These associations and comparisons of the sciences which 
we have studied for centuries, largely from the standpoint of 
good and evil, sense and soul, in an effort to account for a lie, 
must now be turned to the spiritual in the perfection of its inter- 
pretation, that we may find truth and abide therein in peace. 

The application of a perfect science for the purpose of ac- 
counting for a lie, is unworthy of our mind-action. The effort to 
discover a law in falsity as among changeable material con- 
ditions, is unworthy of further time on our part. The search 
among material appearances and suggestion, which have no more 
substance than a suggestion, in order to find a law and a truth, is 
unlawful use of our God given gift of thought-action. Because 
we were explicitly commanded to walk in the law of spiritual 
existence alone, and to perfect our being in this law's teaching, 
for it alone is perfect. 

Therefore let us abide in faithful service to the one Christ-law 
and know the life, love, truth of all things alone. 

Principle in Absolute Control. 

Principle as the absolute power of revelation, expresses the 
one supreme law of perfection and includes every true and 
perfect state of spiritual existence. These states are expressed 
within the soul or conscience alone, and constitute our real 
spiritual selfhood in reflection of perfect principle. Intuitively 
and in other ways we know that principle as a perfect law of 
creation and revelation already contains every possible phase of 
Mind action as expressed being. Whether it has as yet been 






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revealed to us or not matters little^ for we know that it is there 
within principle and that it will remain there always as an in- 
destructible law. 

Jesus said that eye had not seen neither ear heard all of the 
wonderful things of good which is in the keeping of the power 
of principle, ready to be revealed to those who prove themselves 
worthy through a love of the good. That part of creation which 
we mortals behold is very insignificant in comparison to that 
which is to be revealed to the worthy and well qualified. Through 
sense it is not revealed at all, but through soul we get a glimpse 
now and then of life as action, of love as the substance of the 
good which we have been searching for, then truth comes unto us 
in its convincing way to tell us of God, and in this way do we get 
a glimpse of Spirit through the soul. 

When we learn to look through the soul and see the life-love- 
truth-meaning of things then will God come near unto us, and we 
shall perceive the things spiritual divided from the things ma- 
terial. 

Principle is the perfect guide for mind-action as spiritual life 
in being or existence, and as a power of law within the Spirit of 
truth it will surely lead us into all truth, and teach us all things 
whatsoever the Christ has to tell unto his children. This law of 
principle is the comforting power of real and true conviction, 
which cannot be overcome by error. It does not proclaim itself 
in personal leadership among mortals, in an effort to divide our 
allegiance to the perfect law of the Christ. For it teaches us to 
honor the Christ only, that is perfectly. It will not speak of 
itself, nor allow others to do so, but it will speak of the Christ, 
for it is of the Christ, and his name alone is to be exalted. 

This law of the life-love-truth-meaning will open our soul's 
understanding and reveal all good things to come; this law is of 
a certain comforting power because it can be trusted. It is to re- 
main with us forever, and more, because it lives we shall live 
also in its perfection and find peace for our souls. 

Principle when applied to all of our thinking will reveal truth 
unto us and enable us to live right and also to do right, and 
know it. 



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How to Know Principle. 

Now just how am I to discover the soul's expression of the 
things of Principle and understand them as the law of truth in 
which I am to live? 

First by establishing within consciousness the Christ-meaning 
of principle which is as follows: The love-substance of principle 
is expressed in science, the truth-perfection is expressed in law, 
while the life-action is expressed in order. 

Beginning with science in our understanding just what prin- 
ciple represents, we find that science is the substantial fact of 
principle, that all-inclusive knowledge which constitutes the 
body of principle. This consists of a power of instruction given 
according to an absolute and demonstrable way of procedure. 
The source of science is from honesty and justice, instructing 
us according to a law of absolute perfection, in which mortality 
does nothing whatsoever. Science is a perfect power of enlighten- 
ment through truth and to whatsoever subject this law is applied 
it will reveal the good therein in an orderly way and without 
mistake. 

Next comes law which is the perfected state of science, for 
science is perfected because of the power of law's fixedness in 
governing all things of truth. Law is the power of perfection 
against which nothing can prevail to change, for it is supreme 
in itself, it controls everything good and compels it to be obe- 
dient that there may be no mistakes. 

The absolute system of spiritual facts in their good and purity 
are held therein by this same power of law, for it exists as a 
thoroughly organized state of spiritual being, and manifests one 
standard of love for all creation, absolute and unassailable. It is 
the very highest state of existence obtainable and Lord over all 
because supreme. 

Next comes order, as the third concept of principle in its 
perfect being, for all of this knowledge and enlightenment 
must be systematized and brought under a law of economy and 
usefulness, for the science and law of principle must work in 
harmony that it may surely express good. 



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175 



It must express method in all of its operations, and regulate 
all action according to a perfect law, for orderliness is the 
way of law. All of the ways of principle are governed by science, 
law, order, that God's existence and that of His creation may be 
exactly and correctly fulfilled. 

Jesus the Christ-law came into the world to fulfill the law, 
that is to fill the world full of the law of good as the prin- 
ciple of right, righteousness. By means of which we as chil- 
dren of Mind can learn absolute law through the science of Mind, 
and come into perfect orderliness and therein and thereby reach 
perfection in life. 

Jesus the Christ gave unto us this wonderful law of right- 
eousness, and he commanded us to walk therein alone, for he said 
when he repeated the greatest commandment, "Thou shalt love 
the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and 
with all thy mind." 

Principle is the law of righteousness made supreme in per- 
fection and is as a finishing touch to all other heads of the law; 
it is in and among them all as God's presence. Jesus said that, 
"The Father is greater than I," meaning that the Father was 
this supreme power of Principle which is above all things, as 
thoughts. 

Jesus the Christ was the law of righteousness made perfect 
through Principle as the governing power of all being. 



A Table of Comparison of Good and Evil Ideas in the 

Point of Principle. 



Principle 
Chaos 



Science 
Duality 

Law 

Anarchy 



Order 
Confusion 



Instruction Egotism 

Enlightenment Vacuity 
System Irregularity 



Organization 

Standard 

Government 

Method 

Regulation 

Fulfillment 



Shiftlessness 

Theory 

Lawlessness 

Carelessness 

Superficiality 

Procrastination 



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PRINCIPLE, the Truth of Truth, versus CHAOS, as a 

False Concept. 

Chaos is a false mortal interpretation; it is a false appearance 
of the things of this world which cannot be understood, and this 
is because they are not in accord with the one Christ-law. 

Chaos means no thought at all, no understanding at all; there- 
fore it has no real meaning but is simply a sensation of a sug- 
gestion, received through the five deceiving mortal sense organs. 
It would have us believe that there is more and even less than a 
perfect God, that principle does not contain it all, for there is 
something over. This would be utter confusion and lead us 
astray, wherein we would not make any progress towards gaining 
our rightful state of existence in the kingdom of heaven. 

We cannot know chaos and principle also and then understand 
either one, for they are opposites; chaos would gain our atten- 
tion and have us divide our mind-action between good and evil 
that we might not know either one. 

Therefore if we strive to serve God in His principle of perfect 
law, and also mammon as our false mortal imaginations, then 
we do not get one truth but are under both the truth and the lie, 
and their combined influence is chaos. 

There is no chaos apart from mortal imagination, for it is 
chaos itself without reliability, because it has no standard of 
truth. To know principle is the destruction of all chaos, and the 
establishing of light. 

SCIENCE, as the Love of Principle, versus DUALITY, as a 

Hate Concept. 

Duality is the mortal belief that there is more than the one 
perfect truth. Duality declares that both good and evil have 
being and existence, and that one is just as real and true as the 
other. Duality claims that there are two opposing laws whicli 
have existence in reality, and that both prevail in having their 
own way. Duality claims that death as mortality has life-action 
and lives, also that spirituality dies, and is killed by death, noth- 
ingness. This is equivalent to saying that truth is not true but 
is a lie, and also that a lie is not a lie but truth. 



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But the law of truth as scientific Christianity denies all of 
these impossible claims, for it has the power to make us know 
that truth is true to the utter destruction of mortal sense claims 
in the opposite testimony. 

LAW, the Truth of Principle, versus ANARCHY, as a False 

Concept. 

Anarchy is the mortal consciousness running riot, believing in 
itself as a power to judge and condemn from its own imagina- 
tion as a standard. Anarchy is utter blindness to any law of 
good as love, for its intent is to kill that which opposes it, and 
then exalt itself in the place of good or God. 

Anarchy is the mortal concept of self as all, and is a darkened 
state of sensation concerning material conditions only, which 
knows not the Christ presence of love and good. The real thing 
which it hates is its own impotent law, but it is blind to this fact. 
When we come into the realization of the Christ-law as all then 
anarchy vanishes away. 

ORDER, the Life of Principle, versus CONFUSION, as a 

Death Concept. 

Confusion is the mortal consciousness striving to think noth- 
ingness. For its own self as an imagination through suggestion, 
is its confusion and fury. It is a mass of imaginery beliefs about 
that which cannot be accounted for in truth; it constitutes that 
state of seeming life which our Master said was dead. He re- 
ferred to it when he said, "Let the dead bury their dead," their 
confusion. We must awake to the fact that we are not mortal 
but spiritual soul entities, not things of death but life. 

INSTRUCTION, the Life of Science, versus EGOTISM, as 

a Death Concept. 

Egotism is the mortal concept of self as all, and such a 
mortal is blind to any other power than his own being. But this 
is not being, for it is mortal death as nothingness. Our Master 
said that there was none good but God. He also said that of him- 



178 The Christ-Law 

self he could do nothing. So it is that egotists think that they are 
greater than our Master. 

Egotists say that their will must prevail, right or wrong, just 
because it is their will. They do not know Christ, but think 
that they know every thing else. You cannot instruct an egotist 
because he is all sufficient unto himself and will not hear you. 

ENLIGHTENMENT, the Love of Science, versus VACU- 
ITY, as a Hate Concept. 

The concept of vacuity is a very good concept of mortality, 
for it is the utter absence of that which is of the Christ-law. But 
there is no such thing as vacuity apart from mortal imagination, 
because the whole of space is full of spiritual presence and the 
laws of righteousness. 

There is no lack of infallible power of the Spirit of good and 
loveliness, its right ideas fill all space and presence and provide 
us with being of the right kind. Its laws of love and good are 
our source of life and peace and are free to those who will take 
them. 

SYSTEM, the Truth of Science, versus IRREGULARITY, as 

a False Concept. 

Irregularity is a mortal concept which expresses its own 
state of death. It is an unlawful use of our God given gift of 
mind-action upon a mortal suggestion of that which is opposed 
to the law of system. 

Evil within the mortal consciousness would have us express 
this idea that it might make us believe that God's perfect law 
had gone astray, lost its power of perfection, or anything else to 
blind us to the truth of good. 

But God's universal law is immutable and cannot be lost neither 
imperfected. If this could be done, God's kingdom would not 
last two minutes. 

System is our salvation in existence, and is our rightful in- 
heritance from a God of heaven. 



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ORGANIZATION, the Love of Law, versus SHIFTLESS- 
NESS, as a Hate Concept. 

Shiftlessness is mortal laziness and is a mortal expression of its 
own impotence. There is no good, truth, right, or being in this 
seeming action of the mortal makeup. Its whole intent and effort 
is to keep us from expressing life as action that we might live. 

Shiftlessness never yet produced anything real neither true, 
for it opposes all good and right in that it withholds life-action, 
which alone produces the good. Organization is the way of the 
law, and our way if we would succeed, when we strive to set up an- 
other way called the way of mortality, because it won't fight 
us and will let us alone in our shiftlessness, then we are not 
worth the saving but aught to abide in our confusion. 

STANDARD, the Truth of Law, versus THEORY, as a False 

Concept. 

Theory is that which is not known but comes within the im- 
agination and will of mortals. It is claimed to be something 
because it is believed to be something, but just what standard it 
conforms to is not known. 

True standard is the one God made of perfect good or love; 
and when we use it exclusively to measure our soul's expressions, 
we shall not have the thought of theory for we shall surely know. 

This standard of love is the one measure by means of which we 
may all know the things of the Christ-law without mistake. 

GOVERNMENT, the Life of Law, versus LAWLESSNESS, 

as a Death Concept. 

Lawlessness is a false concept of that which has true being, 
the result of which is to present to us nothingness as something. 
When we understand the perfect presence of God's law, there 
will be no time for thoughts of nothingness ; it will fill our being 
so full that everywhere will be law and expressions of lawfulness. 

Lawlessness as an imagination of mortals is a concept of self, 
as are all of these falsities which are apart from God. They are 
the things which were never made although they seem to have 



180 The Christ-Law 

being and ability to make us suffer. But God never made any- 
thing but government through love. 

METHOD, the Truth of Order, versus CARELESSNESS, as 

a False Concept. 

Carelessness is a very common error in this mortal state of 
death expression through the carnal consciousness. It cannot pro- 
duce anything good, and surely is not lovely as a state of being, 
for it will not teach us of order neither of good, but will blind us 
to the knowing of orderliness^ and strive to keep us from expres- 
sions of the. law. 

Jesus said that we were to be born again into a perfect concept 
of the spiritual life. And that those who did not get this concept 
of the perfect life were to remain where they were in the death 
concept of mortality and he said that mortality was death, dead. 

REGULATION, the Life of Order, versus SUPERFICIAL- 
ITY, as a Death Concept. 

Superficiality is a make-believe concept, false in every intent 
of being. There is none of the strength of order in it, but instead 
foolish, senseless, mortal imagination, without being, complete- 
ness or truth. 

Any superficial thing is worthless and unworthy, God's chil- 
dren do not live by this kind of thoughts, but demand truth as a 
live active state of perfect law. The deceit expressed in all 
things superficial is not to be understood, and when recognized 
is seen to be nothingness posing as something, but which has no 
substance to show for its authority of being. 

FULFILLMENT, the Love of Order, versus PROCRASTIN- 
ATION, as a Hate Concept. 

Procrastination is a very subtle error of the mortal imagina- 
tion, for it would keep us from getting fully in touch with the 
Christ-law. 

In this way it would defraud us out of our rightful inheritance 
of perfect life-action in the expression of love. Its suggestion that 






Principle 181 

there is plenty of time, is a very subtle error for the mortal con- 
sciousness is never in a hurry to listen to labor, its intent is to 
rest and let someone else work. Procrastination is the fear of 
mortals of the time when mortality shall cease to be; it would 
put off its own demise to deceive us the longer. But fulfillment 
is the law and it shall not fail. 

As it has been in all other points of the Star wherein we were 
obliged to destroy our allegiance to these evil and false beliefs 
of the mortal consciousness ; so also must it be accomplished in 
this point. 

We cannot rightfully present ourselves as candidates for in- 
struction before the Christ, and in the presence of his law, until 
we have complied with the demand that we walk in the law with 
clean hearts. 

Not until we have given up our allegiance to these hateful 
thoughts and evil suggestions, will we be qualified and able to 
perceive and understand spiritual meanings, and abide within the 
protection of the law free from the confusion of service to two 
standards. 

But having accomplished this understanding and come out from 
under the ban of these evil states of consciousness, we are ready 
to proceed with the following tables, which are to be studied 
carefully and persistently until we see clearly the life, love, truth 
in them, and know that it is the one complete meaning intended 
by the law. 

This law is not based upon mortal opinions, neither personal 
likes nor dislikes, nor governed by mortal laws of any description. 
The ambitious, dominating mortals, no matter who they are, 
cannot add anything to it nor take anything away from it, neither 
aid it in, any way to prevail. For the efforts of mortals with their 
coercive laws, but instil fear into the hearts of men and thereby 
hide the true sense of the Christ love. 

God's perfect law is able and capable in its prevailing, and 
as a perfect law of righteousness it has already prevailed. When 
we come to know this fact and to serve it with an honest will and 
intent of heart, uncontaminated with mortality then will we cease 
to be afraid, and progress in spiritual understanding. 



182 The Christ-Law 

To have the courage to break away from dominating mortals 
and their old and dead customs, which teach of good and evil, 
is a very great start in our progress, and will reveal the higher 
law of the Christ. The following tables are intended to reveal this 
law in its complete life-love-truth-meaning that all may have one 
law and one Christ to follow. 

The following pages should be studied in conjunction with the 
diagram of the Star of Bethlehem. 

The Tables of the Fifth Point of the Star of Principle. 

Table One. 

The truth-perfection of perfect Truth equals truth's perfect 
Principle. 

Table Two. 

The love-substance of perfect Principle equals life's active 
Science. 

The truth-perfection of perfect Principle equals truth's perfect 
Law. 

The life-action of perfect Principle equals love's substantial 
Order. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Principle, in the third revelation of Mind are 
Science, Law, Order. These three ideas represent Principle. 

Table Three. 

The life-action of substantial Science equals truth's perfect 
Instruction. 

The love-substance of substantial Science equals love's sub- 
stantial Enlightenment. 

The truth-perfection of substantial Science equals life's active 
System. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Science, in the fourth revelation of Mind are 
Instruction, Enlightenment, System. These three ideas repre- 
sent Science. 



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Table Four. 

The love-substance of perfect Law equals life's active Organ- 
ization. 

The truth-perfection of perfect Law equals Truth's perfect 
Standard. 

The life-action of perfect Law equals love's substantial Gov- 
ernment. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Law in the fourth revelation of Mind are Or- 
ganization, Standard, Government. These three ideas represent 
Law. 

Table Five. 

The truth-perfection of active Order equals love's substantial 
Method. 

The life-action of active Order equals life's active Regulation. 

The love-substance of active Order equals truth's perfect Ful- 
fillment. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Order in the fourth revelation of Mind, are 
Method, Regulation, Fulfillment. These three ideas represent 
Order. 

These are the tables within the point of the Star of Principle, 
and are to be committed to memory, for we must have them as 
states of conscience firmly fixed in mind, that they may be a sure 
defense against any and every evil suggestion which strives to 
prevail. To know these ideas in their lawful meaning of spiritual 
being is to gain the protection of the power of the Christ-law. 

The Relation of the Ideas in This Point of the Star. 

Principle is the last and very highest attainment of mind- 
action which can be expressed. When it is gained in perfection 
we shall have absolute power over the enemy in all of his subtle 
disguises, forms and suggestions. We shall have completed our 
course in spiritual understanding and risen above the mortal 
imaginations of the evil destructive consciousness. 

Science as the love of principle leads us into a concept of the 
perfect law, and through law we are made to understand that 
which is real. 



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For reality is found only in the law of scientific Christianity, 
and through this understanding of scientific Christianity are we 
given consecration. 

These are the three stages of our concept of love-substance 
in the law, for science being real then it demands consecration. 

Law as the truth of principle is found to be in association 
with infinity as infinite being, while sanctity is the substance of 
the law. These are the three stages of our progress in gaining 
an understanding of just what law is, for law is infinite good 
sanctified. 

Order as the life of principle is in association with presence, 
for order is the law of presence in perfection, and it is further 
associated with purity, thus giving us a complete idea of the life- 
action of principle, for orderly presence as the true love of the 
Christ is the pure law. 

Out of the presence of the laws of honesty and justice come 
the concept of science, as the perfect way of the supreme Law. 
Out of justice and science comes the concept of law; for the 
action of justice in a scientific way is a good perception of law. 

Out of a realization of science and law comes our perception 
of order, for there is no order except in science and law, as 
scientific law. 

And now in the fourth revelation from equity and justification 
comes the concept of instruction, and it is well known that truth 
as a law is that power which alone can instruct anyone and com- 
pel them to understand. 

Out of justification and instruction do we get enlightenment, 
as the substance of science wherein we know and are made free. 

Out of instruction and enlightenment do we get the concept 
of system, for all of the law is systematic and perfect, and it can 
be attained only through the one way of scientific instruction. 

Out of enlightenment and system we receive the concept of or- 
ganization, for the law is perfectly organized in its life-love- 
truth-presence. 

Out of system and organization we get the perception of one 
standard, that of love which is the base of the whole law. 



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Out of organization and standard do we perceive government 
as the law in action, and that its good is intended for our use and 
guidance. 

Out of standard and government we perceive the idea of 
method, which is a necessary state of economy and which will 
help us to prevail. 

Out of government and method we get regulation as a following 
of the fact of these ideas, and we can see just how it profits us 
in economy. 

Out of method and regulation we receive the concept of ful- 
fillment of the law, wherein it prevails and overcomes all mortal 
imagination, for fulfillment as the love of the orderliness of the 
law is our salvation. 

When we have established these ideas in consciousness, we shall 
have gained a good start in knowing the perfect law of the 
Christ, and when we have become familiar with them in use and 
in demonstrating their power over evil suggestion, we shall per- 
ceive the presence of the law as the presence of the Christ Spirit 
and abide within its protection and love. 

Bible Records as Related to the Law of Principle. 

The Fifth Commandment. 

In Exodus 20, 2 and 12, (Because} "I am the Lord thy God 
which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the 
house of bondage:" Therefore you will have in heart to: — 

"Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long 
upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." 

To honor the Father-Mother-Principle which is the spiritual 
power of life, as the truth and love of Spirit, the truth as Father, 
and the love as Mother; will reveal the real source of our being. 
It means to understand that we are spiritual and not material. 
We shall intuitively know to give honor to the law which gives us 
life in the expression of good ideas, for these are to be to us 
for meat. 

This commandment is associated with the fifth head of the 
law as principle, which is the source of all action, substance, per- 



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fection. It is the Father-Mother of every state of perfect being 
which we can live. 

The Fifth Beatitude. 

In Matt. 5, 7, we read the fifth beatitude which Jesus gave in 
explanation of the law in reference to principle. 

"Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy." 

This beatitude agrees with the fifth point of the Star and 
head of the law in principle; for as we give forth a consciousness 
knowing mercy, as the honest exercise of love, we shall thereby 
be compelled to have mercy in heart as an intent. We shall 
surely be blessed by its presence. 

If by mercy, then it must be true of all perfect ideas which 
compose the principle of thoughts within the Christ-Mind, for 
there is no other way in which we can be blessed, save by de- 
claring, expressing and living these ideas as right states of 
being. 

The Lord's Prayer. 

In Matt. 6, 2, we read the fifth section of the Lord's prayer. 

"Give us this day our daily bread." 

Surely this refers to the infinite principle of perfect and right 
states of consciousness in which we live alone, and apart from 
which we do not live at all but die. These must constitute our 
daily bread of spiritual thoughts, and as spiritual mentalities we 
eat nothing else, for they are the source of life and immortality. 
These states of being as idea entities wholly spiritual and good 
are the things which God created in the beginning finished and 
made perfect, and then gave to his children with this command, 
walk before me in my law and in it become perfect. We shall 
not walk in this principle of scientific Christianity without gaining 
its perfection, which is another of God's wise provisions. 

The Sermon on the Mount. 

In Matt. 6, 19 to 24, we read what Jesus said about principle 
as the head of the law in the realm of truth. 

We are told not to lay up treasures here in the earth of 
earthly things where they are uncertain, and among which we 



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cannot place our trust. This is because of the absence of that 
"faith of knowing" in the transitory and changeable character 
of all material goods. The moth and rust, the wear and tear of 
things in this struggle of the survival of those who have the 
most money, the sharpest wits, the least conscience, and the 
power to execute them upon others; all of which is not under a 
principle, neither has it any standard of good, and if not of good 
then none at all. 

But we are commanded to establish true states of conscious 
being in life-action of the perfect law of good, wherein there is 
no evil thing to make us afraid, and nothing which will not last 
always for our good. 

Jesus tells us to lay up a store of faith through attaining a 
clear concept of life in the expression of perfect states of true 
being, that we may know the kingdom of heaven which is within 
us, and in which is no moth, neither rust, nor is there any of the 
wear and tear of mortality. Nor any of its fury and confusion of 
self prevailing at the expense of the neighbor. 

Jesus puts it very plainly when he says, that wherever our 
heart's intent and liking is, there also is our effort to possess that 
thing, because we treasure it and esteem it of value. It matters 
not what it is, but if material, fame, wealth, money, power, pride 
of living, social supremacy ; there will our heart's effort be guided, 
as among the things of rust; or if we are searching to find the 
Christ-law of immortality, surely it will not be among these am- 
bitions. We must not forget that he said that whichever one we 
found to be of value that there would our heart's effort be found 
at work to obtain it. 

The faith of certain knowing is a very great possession, greater 
than gold and silver or any material possession which will rust. 
And it is the power of principle which makes us to know. When 
we have gained this priceless gem then will we separate the good 
from the evil persistently, and dwell within the bounds of the 
principle of good continually. 

Jesus in summing up this whole subject of principle as per- 
fection, says: "The light (the understanding life-action) 
of the body is the eye, (our means of interpretation). If, there- 



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fore, thine eye {interpretation) be single (as one law, in accord 
with perfect principle) then thy whole body shall be full of 
light (spiritual understanding)." 

"But if thine eye (interpretation) be evil (made through the 
imperfect sense testimony as an interpretation) then thy whole 
body (being) shall be full of darkness; therefore if the light 
(interpretation) which is in thee be darkness (the false inter- 
pretation of the animal sense-mind) how great is that darkness." 
This surely will give us something to think about in the matter 
of serving principle^ or not to do so. 



CHAPTER X. 

DOMINION 

the Life of Truth. 

The Law of Knowing, Prevailing Over Sensation. 

Dominion as the life of truth is the power of the law expressed, 
and is that state of being which is sought throughout the earth by 
all people. 

But upon different standards, and in different ways, also for 
different purposes, little knowing that dominion is one state of 
being and is given as the life-action of true perfection. The rea- 
son why we have not attained unto dominion in the past, is be- 
cause it was not true dominion which we were striving to gain, but 
the opposite of dominion in the impotence of selfishness, death, 
which is not the life action of truth, or dominion. 

In John 5 :42, we read some very plain statements which were 
made by our Saviour, and which bear directly on this subject of 
dominion. 

"But I know you that you have not the love of God in you." 

Jesus must have perceived the selfishness and selfwill in these 
people, which would hide the action of truth within their con- 
science. 

John 5:44, How can ye believe (know) which receive honor 
one of another: and seek not the honor that cometh from God 
only ? 

This states very clearly that the law in its prevailing is our do- 
minion, and when contaminated with mortal opinions or coercive 
laws, which are intended to give honor to men or help the law 
in its perfect action, that it is defeated and made null and void 
thereby. 

John 7:17, "If any man will do his will he shall know of the 
doctrine, whether it be of God or whether I speak of myself." 



190 The Christ-Law 

Even Jesus, who had the appearance of being a man like others, 
did not exalt himself, but referred to the doctrine as a law or will 
of God, which was to reveal its own dominion to men when they 
accepted it unadulterated. 

If Jesus did not exalt himself, then why should we think our- 
selves to be worthy of mention in the presence of the law which is 
all? And more, let us turn a light upon this self of mortality, let 
us turn from our worldly analysis of the things of appearance, 
that is, from the things of the realm of outer darkness, because 
they do not give us a life-love-truth-meaning as an understanding 
of spiritual being, and then carefully examine our own heart's 
expression to honestly find what is therein, for as children of God, 
as active spiritual mentalities we should find Christ as a law of 
infinite good established and expressing life, love, truth. 

But just what do we really find? Is it not a storehouse full of 
deceit and iniquity acquired from years of sense experience with 
sin, doubt, greed, fury and confusion? And are we really and 
truly happy, contented, prosperous, and convinced of the allness 
of good and satisfied? 

While looking within our own heart's conscience do we make a 
discovery which we have not in the past been just willing to ac- 
knowledge and own? 

It is that heart of stone in which is no honest love of God, but 
rather a conscience filled with strife, indifference, and selfishness ; 
one subjugated with pain and sorrow, and become unsympathetic, 
unresponsive, defiant, hateful, cold, dead. Are not our hearts 
full of secrets and remorse of past sin and mistakes ? Some or all 
of which, we are not honestly willing to repent, maybe do not 
dare, but desire to have them overlooked and foolishly hope that 
they will be, for otherwise it might be inconvenient and cause us 
suffering or shame. 

Knowing this state of mortality and its evil expression, is it 
any wonder that he said to those hearts standing by him, "I know 
you that you have not the love of God in you." 

But let us turn from this sorry tale unto the hope of dominion, 
which, when it is attained, will do away with all of this evil 
thought, and surely make right all that is wrong. To know and 



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live the one righteous law of perfection is our dominion, and by it 
can we prevail; for this evil consciousness will be overcome and 
cannot longer hold us down in bondage to its suggestion of im- 
potence. For we are not impotent mortals, but spiritual mentali- 
ties with dominion as an ability to think and express Christ's law. 

What Is Dominion, the Life of Truth? 

Dominion is a state of the soul's knowing. It is to see with the 
soul. To see with the soul is to understand. To understand is 
the consciousness of good in heart. A consciousness of good is a 
realization of life-action, love-substance, truth-perfection. 

The concept of dominion as a state of the soul's being is given 
in a realization of its perfect action, for when the soul knows that 
2 times 2 equals 4, it expresses dominion through this perfect 
state of law. 

It knows loyalty, because it has practiced being loyal until it 
has perceived that as a state of perfect being it produces good 
every time. 

Then because the good or love has all attraction to draw men to 
good, the soul gives to loyalty its allegiance, thereafter nothing 
can prevail against this soul's knowing of loyalty and dominion 
will be manifest. 

Dominion as truth's action differs from the dominion in love's 
action or love's perfection in harmony, in the fact that in dominion 
we use life-action; while in harmony we use truth-perfection as 
our power of expression. 

Now when we turn in earnest from our dead-sense heart, that 
mortal consciousness which has so completely covered up the spir- 
itual concept of things, through its material sense-experience of 
this worldly existence; we find the live heart of the soul. That 
real live Christ consciousness as an experience of life, love^ truth. 
Here we find our love perfected and also in action. This living 
soul consciousness which sees the good only as an understanding 
of the presence of Christy reveals our real true being in a full, 
sympathetic, light heart, with kindly feeling to all, and ever 
grateful to our Father for the peace which is within us. Then 
are we ready to stand firm in the faith of good, and to divide with 



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our neighbor our many good gifts which come from the Father. 
Not those things which are convenient and of which we have a 
plenty and to spare, but of those things which we value most and 
can least spare. Not striving to possess our own rights according 
to our own opinions, but to help others to get theirs even if at the 
expense of ours. Then will we begin to understand our dominion 
of love as good which alone overcomes every evil thing. 

When we give up the darkened heart that old mortal con- 
sciousness filled with the commandments of men, as the rule of 
self-preservation which regards not God; then shall we begin to 
understand the dominion of truth. 

This concept of dominion in love, and the dominion in truth, 
will reveal the dominion in life, for love and truth equal life. 

The sixth section of the Lord's prayer will be made plain to 
us, and our unlawful thinking will be destroyed, our debts of 
sense transgression will have been overcome; and we receive our 
rightful dominion in exact proportion to our love for our neighbor 
in righteousness. For we are to see him with the soul as an active 
spiritual mentality expressing the law of life, love, truth. Any 
other appearance which he may seemingly manifest is not to be 
him, but evil, devil. That which we are not to know. 

When we have committed the tables in the preceding chapters 
and from putting them in practice discover their dominion, and 
realize their substance in love; also their dominion as truth in 
action, we will find our life to be in proportion to the number of 
ideas which we can express with dominion. Our allegiance is to 
be first and last to God and his perfect law, and through his 
Christ ideas to extend this law to all men. 

The manifest law of healing is herein shown to be that power 
of demonstration which truth has over the lie. The dominion of 
truth in action over all sense testimony as the lie of inaction. 
This power is summed up as follows and expresses the dominion 
of Mind in our conscience. 

Righteousness as a law of the rightness of right, the love-sub- 
stance of truth; because of its substance perfected, is bound to 
produce one perfection as a realized law of right and truth. This 
gives us a concept of principle as the truth of perfection, to which 



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we adhere because of its indestructable and unassailable power in 
prevailing against everything unlike itself. 

This irresistable power of right and truth as a law of perfection 
reveals one constructive good which is love or the substance of 
right. But this is not complete within our consciousness for the 
reason that the knowing of truth is an act of life, and not until 
we experience within our own conscience its active dominion do 
we know. Not until we have proven the certain action of truth's 
dominion as a power to prevail do we know and know that we 
know, and know just how and why it prevails. 

Therefore all ideas in Mind symbolizing truth's perfection as 
constructive good, are fulfilled and our knowing sealed in con- 
science, because of the living action of truth's power ; that is, all 
truth as constructive good becomes all powerful when perceived in 
action. 

Jas. 2:22, "Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and 
by works was faith made perfect." 

Herein James speaks of the perfect faith of knowing the works. 
It was the same faith which Jesus had in his Father, that perfect 
knowledge of the supreme law of perfection. It must have been 
because of the soul-knowing which Jesus expressed that he was 
able to do the works that he did, for he often spoke of the neces- 
sity of having faith, belief, knowing, as a requisite of expressing 
dominion. He said moreover that nothing should be impossible 
to those who could believe, that is, who were able to gain an abso- 
lute understanding of the dominion of the law which is absolute. 

To know the spiritual principle of life-action, love-substance, 
truth-perfection, and believe it without any doubt because it is 
absolute law and to know just how and why it is sure and certain, 
is the kind of belief which is required to demonstrate the Christ 
dominion. 

This law of healing through the three powers of Mind, to be 
known in conscience and expressed as soul experiences of love's 
attraction in constructive good and possessed in wisdom; also in 
truth's power of perfection as in harmony ; and in life's demon- 
strable action in dominion ; covers vastly more than the subduing 
of pain, or the overcoming of disease. 



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It is not intended to aggrandize mortality in any sphere what- 
soever, but is to make plain the allness of the good, and to heal 
the sick and sinful of their confusion. 

This fact follows the dominion of Mind in its use as a soul's 
knowing. That is as we guide our thoughts into lawful channels 
of right ideas only, do we become like them and gain a certain 
knowledge of righteousness as a positive law. For there is one 
life only which is surely perfect ; to acquire it at all is to acquire it 
perfectly, one idea in perfection at a time, until we have gone 
over the whole list and made it all ours. In this way we can 
make definite progress and know just where we are in the scale 
of development, and are able to touch up any point in which we 
need especial training. 

If we strive to include material conditions within this law we 
shall find confusion in our path, and we surely shall not under- 
stand. But if we turn down this testimony and suggestion of the 
sense-mind, giving it a deaf ear, and then go into conscience and 
abide by the testimony of Spirit to our spirit, we shall surely 
known and know that we know. 

Knowing, as the soul's realization of truth-perfection, is the 
healing power of the Christ. It will surely overcome in our con- 
sciousness every erroneous imagination of the evil sense-mind, 
and correct every imperfect sense-concept (mental error), and 
also their resulting physical manifestations. Not through a be- 
lief as a blind hopeless faith of uncertainty, but through the do- 
minion of absolute knowing; according to the law of righteous- 
ness expressed in life, love, truth. 
• 

How to Know Dominion. 

Now how shall we go to work to gain this absolute dominion 
expressed in this point of the Star, and be able to express its 
active demonstration as our final and certain proof of knowing? 
For we are to know that dominion is that power of action which is 
to seal truth's presence within our conscience. 

The very first thing to do is to get a realization of the Christ 
meaning of dominion. Which is as follows: The truth-perfec- 
tion of dominion equals infallibility; the life-action of dominion 



Dominion 195 

equals control; and the love-substance equals power. Dominion 
therefore must equal an infallible controlling power ; which is the 
action of the Christ-law of truth. 

A concept of dominion is not gained at once, nor without due 
preparation, for we must gain an understanding of the infallible 
allness of good before we are anywhere near dominion. Even 
then no man shall know dominion save him who possesses it, and 
can prove it by its use. 

The power of dominion gives forth a consciousness of the 
truth of lif e-and-love ; also the life of love-and-truth ; also the love 
of truth-and-life, and these are one concept of Mind. 

Dominion is to know the will of life as all action in the uni- 
verse; love as all substance anywhere to be found; and truth as 
all perfection, which is an ever-present law. They must, how- 
ever, be known as soul experiences, real, active, living states of 
being. When seen through the soul it will be perceived that this 
power is the dominion of the law. 

Dominion is infallible law in action, for when we have demon- 
strated any problem of spiritual being, there is present the 
power of infallible action to make its revelation possible. Here- 
in is an experience of our knowing power. When we have ex- 
pressed 2 times 2 equals 4, we have come into contact with one 
phase of the Christ-law, and when we know that obedience is the 
life of love, and that dominion is the life of truth, then we have 
come in touch with Him as the law. This is because of the pres- 
ence of true intelligence expressed. When we realize intelligence 
as principle and dominion ; or the law in action, we have come into 
contact with the creating power of God. 

Once knowing intelligence as true and good, then we shall not 
be able to know ignorance as anything at all. Ignorance is but a 
mortal sense belief of the absence of intelligence, and this is but 
sense-imperfection's inability to understand soul's perfection, and 
to see that which the soul sees. 

When we consider the somethingness of presence, and then 
understand it to be the infallible power of the law of love filling 
all space, and that this power of love's presence is the law or will 
of the Christ, and is the spiritual Christ's presence here and now, 



196 The Christ-Law 

then we can be said to be seeing with the soul, and in close touch 
with the real dominion of the law. 

Stability, certainty, constancy as concepts of infallibility, ex- 
press the unchangeable presence of the law of the Christ and 
they manifest one controlling power in success, achievement and 
mastery. This is the dominion of the Christ's presence here in 
the earth, for he said, "Lo, I am with you even unto the end of 
the world." 

Moreover, the authority, ability and finality of the Christ law 
of dominion, in truth's action is indisputable, and to known cer- 
tainty and its source as in the dominion of the Christ's presence, 
compels doubt to vanish away, it is because of the presence in the 
soul of a realization of this infallible power of true being. 

To realize success as manifest dominion within conscience will 
obliterate every trace of failure in mortal sense, for we cannot 
know them both. 

To realize finality as the power of the law in operation is the 
very completeness of the concept of dominion's action, for it is 
perfected. 

Thus we can easily see that all sense-known things must have 
a battle to the death with all soul-known things, and we already 
know that the soul-known things will prevail. Evil is already 
overcome and put down forever. 

It is the power of dominion in truth which compels a lie to 
lose its sense-presence when in the real presence of truth. So 
must all evil vanish before good; death before life; hate before 
love; falsehood before truth. 

Dominion as the ever prevailing power of the Christ's pres- 
ence is ever active in manifesting good through the will of the 
one perfect law of righteousness. Whatsoever part of this law 
we declare, secretly knowing in the soul, with our active ability 
of dominion, will be revealed openly by demonstration, and ex- 
pressed through the Christ-mind. 

But we must be active in the doing of this law; we must not 
fail to declare it until the attractive power of love is revealed 
Within; then it must be clinched with the power of truth's per- 
fection realized. 



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Dominion is the power of the will of God, the will of good 
in us expressed. We must know, and know life's action, love's 
substance, truth's perfection so well that we can say with cer- 
tainty, just as Jesus said, when the sick man came unto him 
saying, "Good Master I know that if thou wilt thou canst make 
me clean." Jesus replied, "I will, be thou clean." 

Jesus told us in the records of the Bible that we should do 
the works he did, and more, that nothing should be impossible 
unto us if we could but believe, gain the dominion of knowing 
this absolute law of perfection. 

Jesus did not speak with doubt at any time, and it must have 
been because he knew the absolute law of the Father in all of 
its dominion was back of him, ready to do the will of good when 
it was knowingly declared, just in the same way that this law 
is applied to any other subject. 

Now when we learn to know then we can speak with authority 
also, but not until we know, and know as a soul experience of 
Christ's presence within us, for it is he that does the work not 
we ourselves. 

The following table in the sixth point of the Star of dominion 
contains some of the most aggressive mortal imaginations which 
we have to overcome and destroy. When the truth is fully 
understood about them we are delivered from their attractive- 
ness by contrasting them with the good, wherein the false exis- 
tence within the realm of death gives way to the fact of truth. 

Dominion to the impotent mortal sense, which never knows 
anything for a certainty, is a tremendously high standard, and by 
it is not attainable. But when we see dominion through the 
soul, instead of through mortal sense, we do not think it to be 
so very difficult, and neither is it unnatural, for without dominion 
we could do nothing at all. We cannot make any progress or 
gain any understanding of life without dominion. From 
this it is very essential that we understand what dominion 
consists in, and know how to use it, and also when we are using 
it; for without it we cannot progress beyond a mortal hope or 
sense belief, in which there is never any knowing or dominion. 



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Dominion is to have the certain knowledge of obedience to 
the supreme law of perfection; this is to have perfect control of 
the mind power of knowing, which consists in knowing and 
knowing how and why we know. 

This is accomplished through expressing the principle of per- 
fect and right ideas as states of spiritual being, each unit of 
Which exists within our conscience or soul as truth in action, and 
in this way are we expressors of the one righteous Christ-laW. 

Dominion is to know that these right ideas have being only 
and are real and true spiritual truth, and that our immortal exis- 
tence consists in soul expressions of them through the law of 
life-love-truth-meaning. 

But not until we gain them firmly seated in conscience, to the 
utter rout of all opposing errors as the imaginary ideas of the 
evil sense-mind, can we have and understand the power of their 
dominion, which is inherent in every perfect idea. 

To master this head of the law will aid us greatly in gaining 
an understanding of the ideas to follow, and also help to give 
us a better knowledge of just what God, as the Father-Mind or 
Spirit is. For God is to be known to us as a power of Spirit in 
presence, not manlike, but Spirit. 

This question of what God is has troubled people for ages, 
and it has been because they have tried to see him through the 
wicked, evil, deceiving, mortal-sense-mind interpretation of a 
God. Which was just as confusing, destructive and impotent 
as mortal-sense itself, because he was a good and an evil spirit 
in the image of mortals. How could they understand that God is 
Spirit, while looking through mortal sense, at the only thing 
this sense is able to see, that is matter? 

We must awake and see things with the soul, and then we 
shall find God. We shall find him to be a supreme Spirit as a 
perfect law of perfection. 






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199 



A Table of Comparison of Good and Evil Ideas in the 

Point of Dominion. 



Dominion 
Impotence 



Infallibility 
Deception 



, Control 
' Surrender 



Power 
Helplessness 



Stability 

Certainty 

Constancy 

Success 

Achievement 

Mastery 

Authority 

Ability 

Finality 



Transition 

Chance 

Suspension 

Failure 
Defeat 
Servitude 

Pretense 

Futility 

Opinion 



DOMINION, the Life of Truth, versus IMPOTENCE, as 

a Death Concept. 

Impotence is a very blinding and destructive state of belief 
in the mortal consciousness. To believe that we are mortal by 
right, and hopelessly bound to serve the death thoughts, is wholly 
wrong and unjust. For we do not live within the mortal realm 
of nothingness, which is in a dead sense of things, but instead 
within a live intelligence which knows one supreme law of good. 
Impotence means nothing as the lack of something, that is the 
absence of an ability to do, which precludes dominion. 

It is an impotent belief for us to believe that we can exercise 
our God-given dominion before we discover it in fact. It is 
self-evident that we cannot express anything that is not within 
our own conscience, and not until we become pure, that is, one 
With the righteous law will we be able to live right. Furthermore, 
if our consciousness is clogged with the least doubt of the power 
of the law to prevail, then this impotent concept must be cast 
out by taking into thought the three powers of Mind, which con- 
vince us of the allness of life, love, truth. We cannot hope to 
overcome the mortal concept of impotence with mortal impotence, 
it will take real power of the law to do it. 

Dominion is master over impotence every time, when they are 
placed together and compared, the one with the other, dominion 
acts ; impotence does not act. 



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INFALLIBILITY, the Truth of Dominion, versus DECEP- 
TION, as a False Concept. 

Deception is a foolish state of mortal existence, and we must 
not be deceived by harboring this evil falsity within our conscious- 
ness, for when once it gets a hold upon us we are at once blinded 
by it and both defiled and destroyed by its presence. We can- 
not practice it upon another without receiving the harm of its 
presence upon ourselves, because deception defiles and soils every 
soul which comes in contact with it. 

Infallibility, as the one certain and absolute law of right, re- 
veals unto us absolute Christianity, and there is none other Chris- 
tianity but that of absolute law, righteousness. This can be 
surely trusted and does no one any death, but instead reveals 
life and peace. 

CONTROL, the Life of Dominion, versus SURRENDER, as 

a Death Concept. 

Surrender means to give up and cease to know right, that is 
to deny the good and right and to acknowledge evil. Surrender 
is a mortal concept only and pertains to conditions of material 
existence, for it is an acknowledgement of impotent presence. 
There is no impotent presence nor presence of impotence, for all 
of that which has being is within God's kingdom of perfection. 
To surrender to impotence is like giving up to nothingness, to 
cease to use our God-given will to do the right. God's law of 
right compels us to live and express him in every right idea 
as a state of consciousness or state of spiritual being, for we 
cannot surrender right. 

POWER, the Love of Dominion, versus HELPLESSNESS, as 

a Hate Concept. 

Helplessness within the mortal consciousness is there because 
we do not know God as the power of Spirit and presence. The 
presence of this law which runs the universe; and we receive 
our supply from this unfailing source of good and right only. 






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We are helpless only in our own thoughts because they stray 
away from the ever-present law of good and right through mortal 
imaginations. We can hope only to get right by following 
closely the things of the law, the states of perfect being which 
God made. These are arranged through symbols in the diagram 
of the Star, and can be learned therein. 

STABILITY, the Love of Infallibility, versus TRANSI- 
TION, as a Hate Concept. 

Transition is the mortal thought of ever moving from place to 
place, and from form to form. It expresses the uncertainty of 
mortality in the sense concept. That existence here in this world 
of falsity, which cannot be accounted for, and in which we cannot 
stay for any great length of time. 

It is a concept apart from that of the infallible law of immor- 
tality, and also of the immutable presence; and when we get 
close enough to the law of God, we learn that we do not leave 
presence, but that it changes its material appearance, and goes 
out of the range of these sense organs. 

When we realize that nothing can take us out of the hand of 
God, and separate us from his care, and that nothing ever has, 
then we shall cease to be afraid and shall awake and follow the 
law of good only. 

CERTAINTY, the Truth of Infallibility, versus CHANCE, 

as a False Concept. 

Chance is a most subtle concept of deception, and is the ruin 
of many a clear thought of certainty. It is one of those mysti- 
fied thoughts which goes up in our presence to blind and confuse 
us. Its subtle attractiveness is a terrible error of distraction, 
for we receive nothing, more times than anything else, as our 
reward of indulging in its allurement. 

m 

From the spiritual standpoint we receive nothing every time 
from chance, because the law is infallible certainty only, and 
this certainty destroys all fear, which is known as chance. 



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CONSTANCY, the Life of Infallibility, versus SUSPEN- 
SION, as a Death Concept. 

Suspension is a blinding thought of mortal cessation, in fear 
of the law of good and right, being destroyed. As if presence 
could be wiped out for a time, and there be no presence because 
it had been suspended. 

The law of right become wrong, just for a change, if for no 
other reason, but as we know that we have one law of perfection, 
and that it prevails, then this state of affairs could not possibly be. 

Constancy represents the ever-living law of perfection, supreme 
above everything else, and intuitively we know that it will always 
continue. 

SUCCESS, the Truth of Control, versus FAILURE as a 

False Concept. 

Failure is nothing at all. It means that nothing has been at- 
tempted, and proves to us that nothingness still remains nothing. 
Failure has no real meaning in the presence of the life, love, 
truth law, because it is nothing. Failure cannot be thought 
because we cannot think nothing, to think at all means to think 
something as of success, which has life-action, love-substance, 
truth-perfection, none of which is manifest by failure. 

Failure to mortals is a thing of fear, and this is because we 
live according to the standard of mortals in good and evil con- 
cepts. When we walk in the law, as we were commanded, then 
shall we find success and be delivered from the illusion of failure 
as a law. 

ACHIEVEMENT, the Life of Control, versus DEFEAT, as 

a Death Concept. 

Defeat is wholly within mortality, for there is nothing within 
the law which was ever defeated. To be sure, Jesus was cruci- 
fied in the flesh, and mortals said and thought that they killed 
him. But they did not kill him, neither defeat his spiritual law 
of life, love, truth, and these evil, impotent mortals never will. 



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This law is an indestructible immortality called life, which never 
dies. 

We get our concept of defeat from experience with mortal im- 
potence as the fleshly existence in this world's transitions, those 
things which go out of sight, or out of range of motrals, and 
which give the sense of defeat. 

MASTERY, the Love of Control, versus SERVITUDE, as a 

Hate Concept. 

Servitude is a concept of slavery, the fear of not doing that 
which mortals tell us to do, because seemingly they have more 
physical power than we have. This is not and has nothing to 
do with the law of the Christ, which says that obedience is the 
life of love, and does not consider any mortal or their laws. 
Mastery is to abide within the law of the perfect Christ, and. we 
cannot be under the bondage to mortals in servitude, and under 
freedom in the Christ-law also. We must deny one or the other, 
and this means to serve the law in obedience as the life of 
love, for we can do no other way. 



AUTHORITY, the Life of Power, versus PRETENSE as a 

Death Concept. 

Pretense is a foolish mortal-sense belief, for mortality only 
senses its errors as something. But pretense is not a part of an 
infallible law of good, because pretense in its very nature is 
not anything at all. It seems to be something, but is nothing- 
ness without meaning, a sense suggestion only without substance. 
A mortal imagination of. its own being in impotence and confu- 
sion, as a negative something .without fact or truth behind it. 
But authority abides within the law, and has both fact and sub- 
stance behind it; it prevails against pretense and saves us from 
becoming nothing in the pretense of mortality as being something. 

ABILITY, the Love of Power, versus FUTILITY, as a Hate 

Concept. 

Futility is the mortal concept that we are mortal, and in mor- 
tality that we are helpless and have no ability. But when we 



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learn of dominion and gain its power as our rightful state of 
spiritual being, then we prevail against this futility concept of 
the mortal. 

Futility is vicious in its suggestion, for it strikes at the very 
center of mind-action. When we are ready to give up these 
mortal concepts as something good and much to be desired and 
turn to our rightful dominion, we shall find God's word already 
within our heart's conscience to give us a helping hand, and our 
expressions shall become spiritual and right. 

FINALITY, the Truth of Power, versus OPINION, as a 

False Concept. 

Opinion is a subtle excuse for mortal guesses, also a ruse to 
inaugurate chance as a thing of substance. Its whole intent is 
an acknowledgement of the lack of knowing. Things of the 
law are not things of opinion, but things of immutable fact, which 
stand of their own strength and are able to prevail every time — 
this is our concept of finality, from which there is no appeal. 
Mortals claim to know something apart from the one righteous 
law, but they do not, for there is nothing apart from Christ 
and his law of perfection. He is all, and there is not more than 
all. Finality is the testimony of truth as spiritual prevailing, 
which teaches us all that we know. 

How to Know Dominion. 

Having gone over the preceding pages carefully and gained 
the understanding of the allness of the good ideas, and given 
our allegiance to them, thereby casting out from consciousness 
the mortal imaginations of their opposites, which seem to have 
power to prevail against the good; then we are ready to proceed 
with the next step and clinch our knowledge of the allness of the 
good through an understanding of the tables. 

It is the knowing of these spiritual states of being which are 
in the image and likeness of our Father-Mind or Spirit that is 
to endow us with healing power. They must be clearly and per- 
fectly understood and also be uncontaminated with mortal laws 



Dominion 205 

and selfish intents, before we can realize the power of spirit 
in its purity and be able to use it in his name to overcome error 
in any form. 

The healing power of God's law is sure and certain, and con- 
sists in declaring this law with understanding. When this is 
done we get like it in spiritual being, which takes us out of the 
mortal concepts, and we receive relief from our error expres- 
sions. The body easily and naturally takes form in perfect 
unison and harmony with the right concepts of mind-action, for 
we are spiritual in truth and not material. 

We think that we are material, but we are not, and we are 
deceived because we look through the material eyes instead of 
through the eye of the soul, which is understanding. We cannot 
ever find out anything about God through these five deceiving 
material sense organs, for their testimony is one continuous lie 
as a false interpretation. 

For this reason we shall have to abide with each symbol until 
we see with the soul or understand the spiritual meaning of life- 
action, love-substance, truth-perfection, and are able to apply it 
to our daily lives. 

This association of the law to our daily lives is the one thing 
which we are to learn; it will come gradually into our conscious- 
ness if we persist in its use, honestly striving to gain the habit 
of seeing with the soul, instead of with the blind eye of mortality. 

The following pages should be studied in conjunction with the 
Star. 

The Tables in the Sixth Point of the Star of Dominion. 

Table One. 

The life-action of perfect Truth equals love's substantial 
Dominion. 

Table Two. 

The truth-perfection of active Dominion equals love's sub- 
stantial Infallibility. 

The life-action of active Dominion equals life's active Control. 



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The love-substance of active Dominion equals truth's perfect 
Power. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Dominion, in the third revelation of Mind are 
Infallibility, Control, Power. These three ideas represent 
Dominion. 

Table Three. 

The love-substance of perfect Infallibility equals life's active 
Stability. 

The truth-perfection of perfect Infallibility equals truth's per- 
fect Certainty. 

The life-action of perfect Infallibility equals love's substan- 
tial Constancy. 

Therefore the counterparts or developed meaning of the Christ- 
Mind of Infallibility in the fourth revelation of Mind are Sta- 
bility, Certainty, Constancy. These three ideas represent Infal- 
libility. 

Table Four. 

The truth-perfection of active Control equals love's substantial 
Success. 

The life-action of active Control equals life's active Achieve- 
ment. 

The love-substance of active Control equals truth's perfect 
Mastery. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Control, in the fourth revelation of Mind are Suc- 
cess, Achievement, Mastery. These three ideas represent Control. 

Table Five. 

The life-action of substantial Power equals truth's perfect 
Authority. 

The love-substance of substantial Power equals love's substan- 
tial Ability. 

The truth-perfection of substantial Power equals life's active 
Finality. 



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Therefore the counterparts or developed meaning of the Christ- 
Mind of Power, in the fourth revelation of Mind, are Authority, 
Ability, Finality. These ideas represent Power. 

The careful study of these ideas as states of soul expression 
within the law of the perfect Christ, will reveal his being and 
presence; for did he not say, "Lo, I am with you alway?" 

We must persist in our looking with intent to see things with 
the soul, whereby we shall perceive their life-action, love-sub- 
stance^ truth-perfection, and lose sight of the mortal concepts 
through the material sense-deception. As we gain an under- 
standing of the good we shall see that it is the presence of the 
Christ in absolute Christianity, and in this concept we shall be 
delivered from allegiance to the mortal-sense imagination of 
worldly presence and power. From the things which are in- 
tended to hide a clear thought of the righteous Christ as pres- 
ence, by demanding that we divide our allegiance with mortality. 

The Relation of the Spiritual Concepts in Dominion. 

The relation of the spiritual states of consciousness, which are 
represented in the sixth point of the Star; and how to study 
them that we may realize their power over us, for they are the 
powers of Mind which prevail against the mortal imaginations 
and which compel us to know. 

Dominion is the second stage of our progress into the kingdom 
of real being. When we have gained the understanding of 
dominion we shall come into the possession of immortal being 
and realize our real selfhood, thereby gaining perfect obedience 
to the Christ law. 

It will be seen that obedience, dominion, being, are the three 
life ideas within the three realms of love, truth, life, and that 
they are wholly spiritual and do not consider anything material. 

Infallibility as the truth of dominion is in association with 
demonstration, for it must be an infallible demonstration if 
truth and good: We know that every work of God is both infal- 
lible and demonstrable, just as our Saviour said that it was. 
Again infallibility and demonstration are in association with 



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peace, for infallible demonstration must of a necessity reveal 
peace. 

Control as the life of dominion is in association with sagacity 
in the realm of life, and with unity in the realm of love. These 
three words reveal the law, for a controlling sagacity unifies 
all things in one law. 

Out of law and order is infallibility revealed, and out of order 
and infallibility is the concept of control given unto us ; from 
infallibility and control we get power, which is an understanding 
that there is no other source of power than this spiritual one. 

Therefore an infallible controlling power is that which dem- 
onstrates dominion, without which we could not even think. Jesus 
said that if we could give up our evil mortal imaginations and 
believe in this power of Spirit as all and final, that we should 
do the works which he did. 

Out of the concept of regulation and fulfillment comes the 
thought of stability, as a realized state of spiritual being, both 
firm and fast; from fulfillment and stability comes certainty, 
that comforting state of being in which is no doubt. Out of 
stability and certainty comes constancy, for we cannot separate 
them. These three ideas give us the Christ meaning of infalli- 
bility, that is the love-truth-life-meaning of infallibility. 

Out of certainty and constancy comes success, from constancy 
and success we get the thought of achievement, and from success 
and achievement we understand mastery. These ideas of success, 
achievement and mastery give us an understanding of control. 

From achievement and mastery we perceive authority ; and from 
mastery and authority comes ability, while from authority and 
ability we perceive finality; Jesus spoke with finality because 
he knew. These states of consciousness, when known, will give 
us dominion. 

Bible Records as Related to the Law of Dominion. 
The Sixth Commandment. 

In Exodus 20:2 and 13 (Because), "I am the Lord thy God 
which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the 
house of bondage." Therefore our conscience shall be of life- 



Dominion 209 

action only; because we are brought up out of error we shall be 
free from intentions of destruction, even as given in the sixth 
commandment. 

"Thou shalt not kill." 

Because we have acquired the concept of the allness of good 
in life-action we shall not know or think destruction in any way. 
It will be our whole effort to express life-action only. 

This commandment is given as a sacred promise of that which 
will follow the life within the law, in God's kingdom here upon 
the earth. When we stop to think as to whether the power of 
the threat of evil has ever aided us any in the keeping of the 
commandments, or gave us any ability to turn from the intent 
to kill, we find that it has not. But has forced us into secrecy 
and still worse into deception, and has no power to help us in 
any way whatsoever. When this same commandment is given 
without the vail as a threat of evil, it becomes a sacred promise 
in the new covenant of the Christ perfection. It is because we 
know the good within the three powers of Mind to deliver us 
from evil, that we shall withhold our hands from killing any- 
thing. We shall not have the thought to kill, but have one of 
to live, and to make to live in its place. 

The Sixth Beatitude. 

In Matt. 5 :8 we read the sixth beatitude with its dominion. 

"Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God." 

The pure in heart are those souls who have come under the 
influence of the Christ-Mind, and know the life-love-truth-Law. 
They will have gained the concept of perfection through expres- 
sions of the right ideas in this law, and live from day to day the 
manifest life-love-truth-meaning of Christ's perfect being. The 
fact of the presence of loveliness reveals the dominion of Mind 
in us. 

We as active spiritual mentalities, as children of God, shall 
perceive the power of Spirit in our midst, and know that it is 
God's presence, and understand the dominion of the law as the 
life-action of good or God. 



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The Lord's Prayer. 
In Matt. 6:12 we read the sixth section of the Lord's prayer. 
"And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors." 
Forgive, that is utterly destroy from our consciousness the 
sense-beliefs and unlawful results of false thinking. Reveal unto 
us the dominion of Mind, whose power for good is to destroy 
our evil thoughts in proportion to our use of the good thoughts. 
When we learn to live in loveliness then we have forgiven our 
neighbor, for we cannot have love and hate in consciousness to- 
gether. Now just in proportion to our manifest loveli- 
ness shall we be delivered from our transgression of the law, 
which is honest and right and just. Therefore, through the 
dominion of the law of love shall we become right and free 
from evil. 

The Sermon on the Mount. 

In Matt. 6:24 to 34 we read of dominion and how Jesus ex- 
plains its power for good. But the demands of absolute Chris- 
tianity were at that time, and are now also, so uncompromising 
with the mortal, that it seems almost impossible to acquire it; 
but we must not forget that this statement is a mortal law, made 
by mortals in order to hide the law and defeat its attainment. 
The truth about it is this, if it were not absolute we could not 
learn it at all; and unless we absolutely turn from the evil con- 
cepts of mortality we cannot understand. All law is absolute or 
it is not law; mortal imaginations are not law because not 
absolute. 

Jesus begins with the statement, "No man can serve two mas- 
ters," that is the two opposing interpretations of sense and 
soul cannot both be expressed and demonstrated as absolute law. 

We can easily see that it is our absolute obedience to the laws 
of mathematics which brings us in touch with the dominion of 
the law or principle of mathematics. 

Jesus says very plainly that we cannot serve truth and the 
lie ; right and wrong ; God as perfect law and devil as deception ; 
and ever get any understanding free from confusion. We can- 
not abide within the lawful thoughts and unlawful thoughts also 
and ever gain dominion as an understanding. 



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With this idea of God's perfect power or dominion ruling all 
things for good, and good only, we can see that there is no 
harmony of being anywhere else. Jesus says for us not to 
insert our own willful sense-opinions and seeming ability instead 
of the law, or in the place of the law, if we would find harmony 
of being. He says for us to give up the thought that we are 
living materially, and take on the understanding that we are 
living spiritually; and that the things which we eat and wear, 
etc., are of small consequence in proporition to the real life in 
Mind. He says is not this life of immortality much more to us 
than the meat which we may need in this mortal state of exis- 
tence? For the material things are of very little consequence in 
comparison to immortal life. 

Jesus refers to the body, the spiritual mentality of truth ex- 
pressed, as being much more in value than the raiment of mate- 
rial goods which is put upon it. 

Jesus calls our attention to the things around about us, all of 
which are the direct result of the perfect law of truth's dominion ; 
and he says that they are all governed and controlled by the 
Father, and that it is because of the dominion of God in them 
that they are perfected and continue in being. The birds neither 
sow nor reap, nor do they gather into barns, but through obeying 
the power of the law in instinct they are guided to food and care, 
and are protected. Then he says are ye not as the highest idea 
of God's creation of much more value than these birds, flowers 
and lesser creations. Man has the ability to think in perfect 
unison with the law in reason and judgment, and can express 
perfect states of being with their dominion, therefore he should 
all the more express God's being. 

Next Jesus refers to this animal-sense-mind, which is so domi- 
nant in the affairs of this life here in the world, and says, "Which 
of you by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature?" 
This is but another way of saying that mortal thought is impo- 
tent, and is no part of the dominion of divine Mind. If we are 
impotent in our willful mortal thoughts and unable to do anything 
within the law of ourselves, then why take thought for food and 
clothing, as if we could provide them independent of God? 



212 The Christ-Law 

Jesus says that we must live closely in touch with the dominion 
of truth in action or God's dominion of good. That we must 
agree with the law as God made it, and that then we shall find 
all things right and good. 

This one law absolute in its ruling governs us and the lily of 
the field, and the lily is more in harmony with the law than 
Solomon in all of his mortal aggrandizement. 

Again Jesus cries aloud for the prevailing of his Father's won- 
derful law of good in the dominion of truth, for he says that 
his Father, in his great wisdom, has provided for all of his 
creatures, and reveals unto each that which is right and good to 
do, if we will but listen to him. Why should we have so much 
faith in our ways and so little in God's law of spiritual dominion ? 
We must learn to obey the law, for it alone is dominion. 

Jesus tells us that it is our lack of faith and obedience to this 
law which is the cause of so much failure in our lives, and that 
when we come in close touch with the law, and use it, then will 
all things go aright. 

Jesus tells us not to take thought for our mortal future, for 
God has that in his care, and our effort to guide things will 
blind us to the greater future which he has provided for us. 
Our will must be attuned in perfect accord with the divine Mind, 
the will of good, that our desires may be successful. 

How many times have we failed in our own willful efforts 
to do something which we very much desired, and setting out 
with the fortification of mortal experiences only we expect to 
accomplish it; soon we run into the law of truth and find our 
impotence is of no use, circumstances do not come right that 
we may gratify our lust for gain at the expense of our brother, 
and it is because there is no such thing within the law, and also 
that the law is all dominion. 

Jesus tells us that his Father already knows just what is good 
for his creatures and has provided it in abundance. 

In summing it all up Jesus says that the Gentiles seek after 
these things in this way, and that it is because they do not know 
the law of good, but look at the things of this world only. 



Dominion 213 

Then Jesus says, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his 
righteousness/' that is to express the law perfectly, wherein we 
shall understand a perfect way to succeed through knowing that 
which is always dominion in our hands, because it is divine 
law and not mortal imagination. In this way shall all things 
be added unto us surely and rightfully, because we work accord- 
ing to a perfect law. 

He says, moreover, "Take no thought for the morrow," but 
learn to abide within the law at all times, in the ever present 
now of being; and that sufficient error is in this ever-present 
mortal imagination of now, to keep us busy without going into 
the future, but when we are able to take care of the now, then 
will the future take care of itself. 

This part of the sermon on the mount is a most wonderful 
statement of dominion and its result upon those who hear it 
and obey the law. 



CHAPTER XI. 

INTELLIGENCE 

The Truth of Life. 

A Law of Redemption From Mortal Temptation. 

In the fourth chapter of Matthew is given a description of how 
Jesus was tempted by the suggestions of the evil consciousness 
or devil through the material sense appearance of things. He 
was tempted (but did not yield) to depart from his knowledge 
of the realm of life as true intelligence, and entertain materi- 
ality as something real good and true. First, he was tried by 
that which opposes life-action as spiritual thought, which is, the 
mortal concept of death. Second, by that which opposes truth 
as the lawful concepts of right ideas, which are the false mortal 
imaginations or lie. Third, by that which opposes love as the 
spiritual concept of good, which is, the material lust for earthly 
possessions. These temptations cover all manner of temptations 
and are just as applicable to men of today as at any time. 

Jesus' Temptation in the Realm of Life. 

In Matt. 4:1 we read, "Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into 
the wilderness to be tempted of the devil." 

Jesus was led of his own investigative spirit to look from the 
realm of intelligence into the claims of material suggestion, com- 
ing from outer darkness through sense appearance, that is, the 
impressions and assumptions of mortal sense interpretations. He 
would know their points of temptation and refute them for our 
benefit. 

In Matt. 4:2 we read, "And when he had fasted forty days 
and fortjr nights he was afterwards an hungred." 

And when he had spent this time in the wilderness of material 
sense testimony as a place of deception apart from the realm 



Intelligence 215 

of true intelligence, and had compared the light of understand- 
ing or day thought, with the darkness of confusion as the night 
thought, he found them to be opposing forces. One was some- 
thing with life-action, while the other was nothingness without 
life-action, and after this he hungered for the realm of true intel- 
ligence that he might receive nourishment as understanding. 

In Matt. 4:3 we read, "And when the tempter came to him 
he said, "If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones 
be made bread." 

When the tempter, as the deceiving mortal sense suggestion, 
demanded that Jesus acknowledge matter as stones having a life- 
giving power, or rather for Jesus to make of matter a reality 
endowed with life-giving power, then Jesus refused to do so. 

The intended sting of offense given by evil suggestion in that 
insinuating "If" was to goad Jesus on to do this thing if he 
had any pride in his own power, and it is typical of all evil 
suggestion intended to cause hateful mistrust, pride or doubt 
of the allness of good. Then follows in brazen cunning the 
assumption and demand, "Command that these stones be made 
bread." 

Evil would have the mortal interpretations in all their false- 
ness made permanent, which would make the devil himself real 
having power. This would hold us down and bind us forever 
in imperfect concepts of confusion. 

In Matt. 4:4 we read, "But he answered and said, "It is 
written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word 
that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." 

Here we see that Jesus answered satan to the point, and that 
his answer was final, because it was in accord with God's will 
and true. To have being as a real immortal power bestowed 
upon material imaginations as sense appearances would interfere 
with God's law of spiritual perfection. When we turn to Deut. 
8 :3 we read, 'f&ffd^e humbled thee and suffered thee to hunger, 
and fed thee wil&%nfthMfwttfefc3fceu knewest not, neither did thy 
fathers know, fn^i^OH^n^afce ty2&P]&foTfy that man doth not 
live by bread (4l^M§%^f W^^^e^li ^ of 
the mouth of tngiBbMo&tfrraWdM' 1 ^^™ 8irf -gmte&o rd ion 



216 The Christ-Law 

From this it is very evident that real life is in Mind only, 
while sense imaginations are but death. The spiritual states of 
consciousness expressed by us, which are in the image and like- 
ness of the Father-Mind or Spirit constitute alone immortal life. 
We are to know that man does not live in material imaginations 
as appearances of matter, for they are but sense suggestions 
and profit nothing. 

This first temptation did not deceive Jesus nor confuse him 
in regard to life and death by including them both as real and 
true, for Jesus denied the sense concept of death as power with 
life-action, and extolled the life in Mind as being all good and 
truth. He refused a life-giving power to matter and stated 
plainly that life is in Mind alone as the expression of right 
ideas in the law of Intelligence. 

Jesus is Next Tempted Within the Realm of Truth. 

In Matt. 4:5 we read, "Then the devil taketh him up into the 
holy city and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple." 

Herein this same deceiving sense suggestion as devil in its 
cunning subtlety reminds Jesus of his power spiritually. It sug- 
gests self-righteousness and takes him into a concept of holiness 
and places him on the highest pinnacle of spiritual power. Jesus 
being endowed with this power in the temple or residing place of 
God. This is a very subtle effort of evil to separate Jesus from 
God by causing him to behold himself as power in the place of 
God, and it is followed by a tempting argument intended to make 
Jesus sin. 

In Matt. 4:6 we read, "And said unto him, "If thou be the 
Son of God, cast thyself down : for it is written that he shall give 
his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall 
bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone." 

Herein is that offensive "IF" again repeated and a subtle 
demand also made that a spiritual truth be proven by a material 
sign. The evil mortal sense goes further in self-justification by 
quoting scripture in an effort to gain recognition. The demand 
is that Jesus tempt God by departing from his law of perfection, 
not by casting his material body down from a material building, 






Intelligence 217 

but to cast himself down into the pit of unclean things of thought. 
The devil as mortal sense suggestion of evil would have Jesus 
take a chance with the attractions and distractions of material 
sensations. Evil would have him tempt, that is try or depart 
from the law of truth and right, which remains irrevocably cer- 
tain in its prevailing against evil or error. Jesus knew that 
by his thoughts and acts would he be judged, for they would 
constitute his being or expression of being, therefore he declined 
to cast himself down into the fury of the pit of uncleanness and 
be defiled in the realm of outer darkness, and did not try them 
just for the sake of their experience. Jesus knew how to obey 
God's command to be perfect in spiritual expression, and when 
evil said to him not to be afraid, but to cast himself down into 
the pit of unclean thoughts, he knew that God nor God's angels 
would not follow him there nor uphold him in doing so. 

In Matt. 4:7 we read where Jesus said unto him, "It is writ- 
ten again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." 

Again Jesus refutes this effort to make him sin in tempting 
the power of truth to prevail against him, for having gone down 
into the pit. He knew that he could not for one moment desert, 
doubt or refrain from the law of perfection and thereby tempt 
God's mercy, because of the ever-present power of the law to 
prevail against evil. And again the answer of Jesus was con- 
vincing and final, for it put the devil to flight. 

In Exodus 17:1 to 8 we read where the children of Israel 
tempted the Lord and departed from his protection, care and 
mercy, for they said, "Is the Lord among us or not?" They no 
longer trusted him because of the press of material conditions. 
They departed from declaring his law of good under all circum- 
stances, and depending upon his mercy and loving kindness, 
therein they tempted the Lord and reaped the prevailing power 
of the law of truth as a flame of fire which they called evil. 

Then God proved to' them his power and goodness, for he 
commanded Moses to go forth and give them water from the 
rock; that is to refresh and enlighten them with concepts of the 
law of good or love. 



218 The Christ-Law 

Next Comes the Temptation Within the Realm of Love. 
In Matt. 4:8 and 9 we read, "Again the devil taketh him up 
into an exceeding high mountain: and sheweth him all the king- 
doms of the world, and the glory of them." And saith unto him, 
"All these things will I give unto thee if thou wilt fall down and 
worship me." 

Evil as mortal sense suggestion causes Jesus to take account 
of the grandeur, display and seemingly desirable things of the 
material world. He is given a strong sense of their glory and 
an exalted impression of their value, but he sees that these things 
are the ones which darken our understanding of the power and 
presence of good as spiritual law. 

The worldly things of beginning and end oppose the immor- 
tal things of spiritual good, because the worldly things are 
those of confusion and fury and not to be understood. Evil said 
in suggestion, all these worldly things, the things of outer dark- 
ness which are not understood, will I, the deceiving sense, give 
unto you if you will but worship them and me. 

If Jesus had accepted these things he would have been in con- 
fusion and fear, and this was what the devil wanted, for he would 
have separated Jesus from God's love. 

Jesus saw nothing in accumulating great worldly possessions 
but distraction and confusion, for there is no life or intelligence 
in them. 

In Matt. 4:10 we read, "Then said Jesus unto him, Get thee 
hence Satan (sense suggestion), for it is written, Thou shalt 
worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve." 

In Deut. 6:5 we read, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God 
with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." 

The Lord thy God, as the presence of the power of Spirit in 
the supreme law of perfection, is to be loved with all of our 
heart's love; is to be expressed with all of our soul's understand- 
ing; and is to be maintained with all of our might of truth. 
The orderly arrangement of this law is given in the Star of 
Bethlehem, where we are taught to know the allness of good and 
cease to be afraid. 



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Moses and Jesus both said that we were to give our entire 
time and lives to performing the law's right way in all that we 
did, and to continuously follow after the word of God in under- 
standing life, love, truth. 

These three temptations, given in this chapter, cover all man- 
ner of temptation, for they are arranged under the heads of life, 
truth, love. They are made null and void of power and effect 
through knowing the three powers of Mind as the law of life, 
love, truth, which refute them. To know the law of action and 
perfection of spiritual substance will deliver us from errors, just 
as it delivered our Saviour in his temptations. 

Intelligence as the seventh point of the Star and head of the 
law is fully represented by this chapter on temptation, because 
the temptations of mortals are. their imaginations that there is 
something besides God, or the spiritual power in presence. We 
are to discover the difference between right ideas as states of 
spiritual being which are understood, and mortal sense imagina- 
tions of wrong ideas which are not understood. 

How to Know Intelligence. 

How can I gain an understanding of true intelligence and 
learn its correct expression in mind-action? 

First a clear concept of the Christ meaning of intelligence 
is necessary. Understanding is the love-substance of intelli- 
gence; consciousness is the truth-perfection; while creation is 
the life-action of intelligence. 

True intelligence is the soul's understanding as the recep- 
tive, intuitive experience of the heart; that knowing of the soul's 
consciousness which seems to have always been as a living 
expression of immortality. 

Herein do we come in contact with our own selfhood as an 
active spiritual conscience. It expresses an understanding con- 
sciousness as a realization of spiritual truth, and separates sense 
testimony from soul testimony, because of a power of spiritual 
perception in interpretation as an ability to know the law of 
love, truth, life. 



220 The Christ-Law 

Herein is our consciousness of God constantly revealed, for 
when we begin to sense spiritual truth, then are we shown the 
innermost workings of harmony as the kingdom of heaven within. 

Intelligence as the seventh point of the Star and head of the 
law includes and expresses the infinite ideas of Mind. This is 
the perfected state of all creation of spiritual being, and has 
nothing to do with the sense concepts of material imperfection, 
which is suggested by objects of matter around and about us. 

An understanding of the law of truth, life, love, as true intel- 
ligence will give the possessor power over the temptations of sense 
suggestions in mortal imaginations. It will reduce this sense 
testimony to unthinkable nothingness, whereby it will lose its 
power to make us afraid. 

Intelligence is perfect Mind-action, and when we reflect its 
ideas as every right state of consciousness then these come within 
the scope of this head of the law. Therefore infinite creation as 
spiritual being is included within the interpretation of Intelli- 
gence. 

A soul experience of peace, love and joy expresses true intel- 
ligence. That love which is made active through the power of 
life in Mind, and perfected in truth as harmony is Intelligence. 

The worldly knowledge of conditions of matter, gleaned from 
false mortal concepts of law, and based upon sense appearances, 
as in the seeming principle of botany, mineralogy, medicine, etc., 
is not true intelligence founded upon spiritual law, but temporal, 
material and unenduring. These belong to this world only, and 
not to the world of perfection, neither can they be understood 
by the spiritual conscience. 

True intelligence is based upon an understanding consciousness 
of spiritual creation. It is intuitively known within conscience 
only, and testifies of infallible law as that which is in perfect 
harmony with the supreme being. Every object of matter has 
its spiritual interpretation through its life-action, love-substance, 
truth-perfection meaning. 

The material interpretation given to us through the five mortal 
sense organs of judgment cannot be trusted because they present 



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a deceptive appearance of things which Jesus said we were not 
to accept, for they teach us of fury, falsity and death only. 

The brain as the seat of all mortal sensation cannot sense spir- 
itually the law of life-love- truth, but senses instead heat, cold, 
weight, density, etc., also its own seeming good or evil in the 
conditions of transitory matter, all of which has the substance 
of appearance only. Imperfect interpretation which follows 
its own intent, for it knows none other. Its constant effort is 
self-preservation, and in consequence of this fact it has made a 
law for itself of the survival of the fittest. 

The whole intent and nature of mortality is to kill something 
and then eat it, in order to perpetuate itself. 

This false sense or carnal-mind interpreation as one of ap- 
pearance of material conditions is impotent, fallible and imper- 
fect. It is based wholly upon sense appearance, and forms the 
foundation of all material science, so-called, as that of botany, 
mineralogy and medicine. 

It can be easily seen that this knowledge, so-called, which is 
no more than false sense interpretation suggested to us by mate- 
rial appearance is not true intelligence as an infallible law of 
spiritual perfection. 

Jesus said in positive command, "Judge not according to 
appearances." Then why should we abide by these false inter- 
pretations of sense suggestion? Jesus also said, "The flesh prof- 
iteth nothing," then why should we abide by its appearance 
apart from and in opposition to spiritual law? 

Therefore to gain true Intelligence is to learn to see the life- 
love-truth-meaning of all things, that testimony within the soul 
of spiritual law which is not contaminated with material appear- 
ance to lead us astray. 






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The Christ-Law 



A Table of Comparison of Good and Evil Ideas in the 
Point of Intelligence. 



Intelligence 
Ignorance 



Understanding 
Stupidity 



( Intuition 
•J Receptivity 
( Experience 



Consciousness \ Recognition 
1 Matter j Interpretation 

f Realization 



Creation 
Destruction 



Revelation 

Construction 

Goodness 



Obtuseness 

Apathy 

Latency 

Indecision 

Inaction 

Perplexity 

Concielment 

Separation 

Carnality 



INTELLIGENCE, the Truth of Life, Versus IGNORANCE, 

as a False Concept. 

Ignorance is a mortal belief which is not of the law, for it is 
an imagination opposing intelligence. We have been taught that 
all unlawful mortal concepts had a right place in our lives' expe- 
rience, and that it was proper to think these unlawful thoughts, 
but these same thoughts are the cause of our many sad experi- 
ences and mistakes. Ignorance is nothingness, means nothing 
and expresses the absence of the real which has meaning. Ignor- 
ance has no being, that is it has no right entity. It is a mere 
suggestion which would have us think that something opposed to 
intelligence is worthy of our thought, this suggestion is, that 
ever-present intelligence is absent. Ignorance as a reference 
to mortality condemns it as nothing, for mortals in the concept 
of mortality are impotent in their own sensations, and cannot 
express intelligence as having reality. 

We say ignorance is a real state of being, for I am ignorant. 
But when we stop to consider we perceive that that which we 
have not is no part of us, and all that there is to us is the intel- 
ligence which we express. This expressed intelligence is our 
real selfhood in action and constitutes the true individuality. 
Each one of us is a true state of conscious being in goodness, 
but the bad has no being and cannot be understood, therefore is 
no part of intelligence. 






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UNDERSTANDING, the Love of Intelligence, Versus 
STUPIDITY, as a Hate Concept. 

Stupidity is a mortal dream of inaction, as if anything having 
presence and reality could be inactive. Such a thought is un- 
thinkable, and so must be an imagination, because presence must 
be eternally active in order to be or have being. Stupidity is 
the testimony of the mortal self about itself, hence we must not 
listen to this suggestion and believe in it. We hear a great 
deal about stupidity and believe in its reality and truth in con- 
sequence, but if we did not hear this suggestion then there 
would be none, for stupidity is the lack of something. We must 
awake to the fact that we are not mortals in reality, but spiritual 
children of intelligence expressing truth and reality only. 

CONSCIOUSNESS, the Truth of Intelligence, Versus 
MATTER, as a False Concept. 

Matter in every appearance is subject to Mind's revelation of 
good; it is also subject to the carnal-mind's defilement, the 
animal or mortal-sense-mind is not mind, properly speaking, as 
a reflection of the divine Mind, but is a sense imagination of 
material conditions. It is that which has departed from the law 
of the righteous Christ because it cannot know him. That which 
appears as matter is real and true, when taken and considered 
from the spiritual standpoint, but then it ceases to be material 
and becomes the result of spiritual law. Matter as matter has 
the substance of sense imagination only, when it appears as an 
interpretation of destruction, but according to spiritual law as of 
life, love, truth, it is real and true in its being. 

CREATION, the Life of Intelligence, Versus DESTRUC- 
TION, as a Death Concept. 

Destruction taken from the standpoint of the mortal concept 
is one of fear because not understood. But when viewed from the 
spiritual standpoint we perceive that there is nothing destroyed, 
for it is a progression of life-action which is always present. 
When we descend into the mortal consciousness of things, then 



224 The Christ-Law 

we imagine mystery, confusion, fear, destruction, and lose sight 
of good as eternal reality. 

That which God created is in constant revelation as life's pro- 
gression. That which He did not create we sense as destruction. 

INTUITION, the Life of Understanding, Versus OBTUSE- 
NESS, as a Death Concept. 

Obtuseness is a mortal imagination that Mind is impotent, for 
mortals believe that they are a perfect image and likeness of a 
perfect God or Mind. But they express only mortal imperfec- 
tion. Nothing which is real and true is ever untrue, neither is 
action ever inaction, but dead mortals alone believe in inaction. 
Obtuseness coming through a suggestion of death appearance is a 
mortal interpretation of evil and is without foundation of fact. 
When we are born into an ability to understand the higher spir- 
itual interpretation of absolute law in the life-love-truth-meaning 
of things, then will the mortal concept of obtuseness vanish away, 
for it cannot be found within the absolute law of the Christ. 

RECEPTIVITY, the Love of Understanding, Versus 
APATHY, as a Hate Concept. 

Apathy is another false concept of the life which we think 
we are living in mortality, but which is death and not life at all. 
Apathy is an effort to blind us to the perception of real life- 
action in the spirit of things. Apathy never did manifest any 
life-action and never will, nor does it give forth any good from 
the law, because it is not found within the law. When our recep- 
tive faculties become active to spiritual things, then we per- 
ceive the good which it was intended for us to understand, and 
apathy becomes nothingness and unworthy of our mind-action, 
hence we will not exercise our thoughts upon it as a state of 
consciousness. 

EXPERIENCE, the Truth of Understanding, Versus 
LATENCY, as a False Concept. 

Latency as a false concept of inaction is intended to lead us 
astray, for we are never free from experiences, either good or 






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evil, according to our attention to spiritual law or to suggestion. 
Not until we analyze these experiences and become familiar with 
the mark of good and that of evil can we live correctly. We 
must come out from under the bondage of latent inaction and 
learn the difference between experience and no experience. 

When we abide under the standard of one good as all, we will 
receive the experience of spiritual being and find ourselves sat- 
isfied. Mortality will have been eliminated as a factor in life- 
action. 

RECOGNITION, the Love of Consciousness, versus INDE- 
CISION^ as a Hate Concept. 

Indecision is mortal impotence from not knowing; for it is 
between two standards of good and evil, and while in this state 
of belief cannot possibly reach a decision. When we recognize 
truth and error as both of them having entity, real being, then 
we cannot know either one as real and true, for the opposing 
one comes in to interfere, causing indecision. 

Indecision keeps us from going ahead in our life-action; it is 
a hateful concept of mortal death and one to be avoided. Recog- 
nition is the means of our active intelligence and reveals the 
law of life, love, truth. It alone affords a means of going 
ahead with our living, and makes the fact of life-action very 
plain to us. Therefore we must awake and recognize the things 
of the law which can be known and understood, eschewing all 
indecision because of not knowing. 

INTERPRETATION, the Truth of Consciousness, Versus 
INACTION, as a False Concept. 

Inaction is certainly a state of mind which does not need much 
comment; for it does not manifest anything at all. Its meaning 
is utter nothingness, which is no meaning. To have an interpre- 
tation of something as life-action creates a fact of knowing, for 
our ability to think right thoughts, makes them real and true 
states of dominion within mind. 

We cannot think nothingness, no matter how hard we try, for 
to think at all we must think something, and every bit of the 



226 The Christ-Law 

somethingness of being is included within the law of the abso- 
lute Christ. 

REALIZATION, the Life of Consciousness, Versus PER- 
PLEXITY, as a Death Concept. 

Perplexity is mortal indecision because of not knowing the 
Christ-law of right ideas as states of spiritual consciousness. To 
acknowledge the presence of two standards is perplexity itself 
and surely will hold us in confusion. There is no help for us 
as long as we cling to both standards of good and evil, for they 
oppose each other and there is no health in them. The confusion 
of mortality's two concepts is death, because there is no right in 
them. There is no perplexity in the presence of intelligence, 
for the realization of right always satisfies. 

REVELATION, the Truth of Creation, Versus CONCEAL- 
MENT, as a False Concept. 

Concealment is that realization of truth which is hidden by 
the false sensations of the mortal mind. If it was not for this 
false mortal consciousness we would perceive truth without ob- 
struction and know that truth was all that could be perceived. 
We mortals are our own blindness, but there is nothing hidden 
which shall not be made plain, neither concealed, which shall 
not be known, according to our Saviour's word. 

Everything perfect is revealed within the spiritual conscious- 
ness, but nothing perfect is given to the mortal consciousness, 
because it would defile it, for it is the mortal will which blas- 
phemes against the Christ-law. 

CONSTRUCTION, the Life of Creation, Versus SEPAR- 
ATION, as a Death Concept. 

Separation is the mortal belief that we are separated from the 
law of the Christ and cannot understand it, also that we are 
impotent mortals and bound by an evil law to abide in bondage 
to evil. If there is any separation then we do the act for our- 
selves by abiding within mortal concepts. To get away from 



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these beliefs we must arise and know Christ's law of good and 
realize that we are spiritual or mental beings not bound to serve 
imaginations of mortality. Constructive life-action is our proper 
sphere and it is to know the absolute law of the Christ and abide 
therein. 

GOODNESS, the Love of Creation, Versus CARNALITY, 

as a Hate Concept. 

Carnal consciousness is within the mortal mind, and is the 
mortal mind. It is the dead sense of mortal imaginations apart 
from the Christ law of everliving loveliness. Our Master said 
that we had to be born again out of this state of belief as a state 
of mortal consciousness, into concepts of the law of love wherein 
we find life and truth perfected. 

Not until we have attained this law of love in the soul ex- 
pression of its infinite ideas can we be said to be alive, for 
otherwise we abide in the dead mortal consciousness of sense 
imaginations. Goodness is the standard of the law of love and 
the base of all right living. 

How to Know Intelligence. 

Having satisfied ourselves that we have ceased to give any 
allegiance to the false concepts which have been reviewed in 
the preceding pages, we are then ready to take up the perfect 
and right ideas of the spiritual consciousness. From these we 
are to learn of the Christ-law and therein gain our immortal 
existence with him. 

The following part of this chapter is very important and the 
affirmation of the truth as states of spiritual being realized, 
should not be passed over any faster than one can get an 
understanding of what is meant by the life-love-truth-meaning 
of the law. Every spiritual state of conscience must express a 
life-love-truth-meaning only and must be complete and perfect. 

These tables give this law of the one Christ meaning to all 
things which are created. No mortal imaginations as the things 
which were not made are found therein, neither can they be asso- 
ciated with the Christ. 



228 The Christ-Law 

It must be plain by this time that when we have two standards, 
one of good and one of evil, and seemingly each has a state of 
consciousness, each in opposition to the other, that we must abide 
in confusion. Not until we deny the evil as having any life-action, 
power, being or right, will we be free and ready to take up the 
understanding of the allness of good and make progress in 
healing as thought reformation, with its beneficial results 
physically. 

This healing result is not accomplished through the mortal 
consciousness of self will, but through the ever present law of 
righteousness in perfect action. There is no such thing as mortal 
supremacy, for God is the one supreme law of good and this 
alone must we know and acknowledge, and see every child of 
God as his perfect image. 

Mortals treat each other with the force of the evil mortal will. 
Hypnotization follows this kind of treatment with actual harm, 
for it is not good to dominate one mortal will with another 
stronger one. Now let us pass from this state into a con- 
sciousness of the presence of the Christ-law, and abide therein, 
realizing that it alone is good and all power. 

The following pages should be studied in conjunction with the 
Star. 

The Tables in the Seventh Point of the Star of Intelli- 
gence. 

Table One. 

The truth-perfection of active Life equals love's substantial 
Intelligence. 

Table Two. 

The love-substance of perfect Intelligence equals life's active 
Understanding. 

The truth-perfection of perfect Intelligence equals truth's 
perfect Consciousness. 

The life-action of perfect Intelligence equals love's sub- 
stantial Creation. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Intelligence in the third revelation of Mind are 



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Understanding^ Consciousness, Creation. These ideas represent 
Intelligence. 

Table Three. 

The life-action of substantial Understanding equals truth's 
perfect Intuition. 

The love-substance of substantial Understanding equals love's 
substantial Receptivity. 

The truth-perfection of substantial Understanding equals 
life's active Experience. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Understanding, in the fourth revelation of Mind 
are Intuition, Receptivity, Experience. These ideas represent 
Understanding. 

Table Four. 

The love-substance of perfect Consciousness equals Life's 
active Recognition. 

The truth-perfection of perfect Consciousness equals truth's 
perfect Interpretation. 

The life-action of perfect Consciousness equals love's sub- 
stantial Realization. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Consciousness in the fourth revelation of Mind 
are Recognition, Interpretation, Realization. These ideas rep- 
resent Consciousness. 

Table Five. 

The truth-perfection of active Creation equals love's sub- 
stantial Revelation. 

The life-action of active Creation equals life's active Con- 
struction. 

The love-substance of active Creation equals truth's perfect 
Goodness. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Creation in the fourth revelation of Mind, are 
Revelation, Construction, Goodness. These ideas represent Crea- 
tion. 



230 The Christ-Law 

This point of the Star of Intelligence can be studied well with 
good profit, for it is the very essence of that perfect action with 
which we are to work. Its obj ect is to give us true understanding 
of spiritual life. 

For the benefit of the reader the law in the first table is 

herein given in a simple form to enable one to perceive the 

complete meaning of life, love, truth in one state of conscious- 
ness. 

The love of true Intelligence equals life's Understanding. 
The life of good Understood equals true Intuition. 
The love of true Consciousness equals life's Recognition. 
The truth of liviii g Creation equals love's Revelation. 

The Relation of the Ideas of the Point of Intelligence. 

The relation of the ideas of the point of the Star of Intelli- 
gence with those of the other realms, giving a method of study- 
ing them in order to get them fixed in consciousness. We have 
need of their protecting power to keep us from listening to the 
aggressive suggestions of the animal-sense-mind in its impo- 
tence, confusion and fury. 

Beginning with understanding as the love of intelligence 
we find that the next association is with loyalty in the realm 
of obedience. Not until we understand are we able to be loyal 
in truth; then we find that we have the prevailing power of 
judgment as the life-action of right. 

Taking next the idea of consciousness we find that the first 
association is with service. It is not possible to have and hold a 
true consciousness as of intelligence without serving God in 
a true state of spiritual being. Next follows the association with 
honesty, for a conscious service of the law is honesty. 

Next comes creation as the last idea in this point of the Star. 
We find that it is in association with purity, for purity is that 
which God created and gave to his children to express. Then 
comes an association with justice as a finishing touch to our 
concept of that which was created. The law of right or good 
as love is all that ever was created, and its infinite manifestations 
are constantly being revealed. 



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Now out of the consciousness of control and power is under- 
standing revealed, understanding as the substance of intelli- 
gence. Out of the consciousness of power and understanding 
is consciousness within conscience revealed as true spiritual 
being. Out of understanding and consciousness is creation made 
evident as the presence of life, love, truth. 

An understanding consciousness reveals or creates Intelligence 
and also a creation of an understanding consciousness reveals 
Intelligence. 

Next come the relation of the ideas in the fourth revelation 
of Mind's meaning. 

Out of ability and finality comes the concept of intuition, as 
a spiritual understanding of the things of truth. Out of finality 
and intuition comes a concept of receptivity, as an ability to com- 
mune with our maker and to learn of his law and live. Out of 
intuition and receptivity we gain experience with the things of 
Spirit as understanding. 

Out of receptivity and experience we come into a recognition 
of life as active mind and begin to live. Out of experience and 
recognition we gain an ability to interpret all things of the law. 
Out of recognition and interpretation we are given a realization 
of Christ's presence which satisfies us with a final testimony. 

Out of interpretation and realization we are given a revelation 
of God's creation. Out of realization and revelation comes the 
concept of construction. Out of revelation and construction comes 
the understanding of goodness. These are the relations of the 
ideas of the law of intelligence, but not all of them, for it is 
left for the reader to complete them in other circles. 

Bible Records as Related to the Law of Intelligence. 

Seventh Commandment. 

In Exodus 20, 2 and 14 is given the seventh commandment, 
which corresponds to the seventh point of the Star as a head 
of the law of Intelligence, as will be seen by the following ex- 
planation : 

(Because) I am the Lord thy God which have brought thee 
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, out of 



232 The Christ-Law 

sense allegiance to good and evil, and into a soul experience of 
spiritual demands, then: — 

"Thou shalt not commit adultery." 

Because I have given you dominion in my likeness that is in 
the image of perfection, thou shalt not know or be tempted to 
adulterate anything of perfection with imperfection. Neither 
shall you defile that which is pure and perfect. Thou shalt not 
soil thy God-given dominion of true spiritual intelligence with 
the ignorance of false mortal imaginations. 

Once knowing the dominion of truth's presence within con- 
science we discover that we cannot add anything to it neither 
take anything from it. 

As this law is a perfect state of spiritual being given to us to 
live, we must abide within it, for it carries its own authority 
against which we cannot prevail. Therefore we shall lose our 
counterfeit concepts of deceit and duplicity as the unlawful 
thoughts, in the consciousness of the presence of the law of intelli- 
gence, and therein keep this commandment. 

The Seventh Beatitude. 

In Matt. 5, 9, we read the seventh beatitude, which is the one 
which corresponds to this head of the law and gives its intent of 
blessing. 

"Blessed are the peace makers: for they shall be called the 
children of God." 

A peace maker is a doer of loveliness, a liver of real harmony 
which is intelligence. Understanding and intelligence is final in 
its testimony and saves from strife. 

Lovable people who understand are children of love and intelli- 
gence. Intelligence as the result of principle in action through 
dominion will prevail against everything unlike itself and make 
peace and harmony. Blessed are those who exercise their God 
given gift of intelligence and express peace and harmony, for 
they shall be known as the children of the Law of good or God. 



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The Lord's Prayer. 

In Matt. 6, 13, in the seventh section of the Lord's prayer we 
read, 

"And lead us not into temptation." 

Surely the one supreme law of perfection will not lead anyone 
into the temptation of sense imaginations as an unlawful mind 
expression, for Intelligence could not possibly testify of ignor- 
ance and tempt anyone. 

To realize intelligence is to be led away from sense suggestions 
and therein be kept free from temptation. 

Jesus expressed himself in regard to this head of the law of 
intelligence when he said, "Judge not that ye be not judged," for 
the law is judge over all and we cannot substitute sense imagina- 
tions in place of the law. The law of Intelligence will overturn 
and reverse our mortal opinions in just judgment as the pre- 
vailing of righteousness. 

The Sermon on the Mount. 

In Matt. 7, lj, we read where Jesus begins to explain intelli- 
gence and to warn his hearers against unlawful thought. He 
says that with what judgment you judge with that same judg- 
ment as an unlawful opinion are you in error, and that you 
should abide within the law's expression of all intelligent ideas. 
In this way will we escape our own ignorance. 

In verse 3 he asks why do we behold the mote in another's 
eye — that is, why do we criticise his interpretation and judge 
it because it differs from ours. We are not a standard of measure 
and should be careful not to expose ourselves as such, for we 
surely will be called to account by the law of love, which is the 
one and only measure. 

Jesus then says for us to put aside our own self opinions, the 
mote within our eye or the beam within our understanding, and 
to abide by the one absolute and perfect law of the Christ, 
then shall we experience its final testimony and knowing be able 
to help our brother. 



234 The Christ-Law 

In verse 5 Jesus defines hypocrisy as an allegiance to one's 
self opinions which are opposed to the law of right or intelli- 
gence. Therefore we must perfect ourselves in the law first that 
we may see clearly just how to help others. 

In verse 6 he commands us not to give those thing of spiritual 
being which are holy unto those who will defile them, for therein 
we would be at fault and apt to suffer. Neither are we to cast 
our pearls of right understanding before human swine, because 
they will turn upon us with hate and fury, and we may be 
offended, thereby receiving harm from this offense. 

We are cautioned not to cast ourselves down from the pinnacle 
of the temple of intelligence as good realized within conscience, 
that we may be defiled in the pit of offense, confusion and fury. 

In verse 9 Jesus compares our concept of good or love with 
that of the Father, and teaches us that the love of the Father 
is greater than our mortal sense of love and that we should trust 
him. 

Then Jesus sums up the whole law of intelligence by showing 
us that we receive back just exactly that same thought expression 
as a state of being which we express and send out. 

If we would receive good then we must persistently give forth 
good. He commands us to do unto others just as we would have 
them do to us. That is for us to follow the ruling of one law that 
it may be made manifest. 

This is the law of mind-action in Intelligence, that as we think 
or act, that same state of thought constitutes our being, for we 
cannot be any different from our actual intent of heart. This is 
the law of Mind and is the teaching of all of the Prophets. 



CHAPTER XII. 

BEING 

the Life of Life. 

A Law of Constructive Action Which Delivers From 

Death. 

Psalms 65, 4, "Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and 
causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts ; 
we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy 
holy temple." 

The action of Mind as a living state of consciousness is ex- 
pressed by its offspring in a soul experience of constructive good ; 
and gives forth life as all action; love as all substance; truth as 
all perfection. 

John 4, 23 and 24, "But the hour cometh and now is when the 
true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth, 
for the Father seeketh such to worship him." 

"God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him 
in spirit and in truth." 

Few of us realize that our real selfhood is a thinking con- 
science or soul entity of spirit in close and constant unity with 
the one ruling Spirit of the Father. We are beautifully attuned 
through spiritual sensibility to perfect harmony with God, and it 
is because of the attraction of love or good as a power of Mind. 

Few of us realize that a soul experience of good is a perfect 
reflection of God. The resplendant action of the light of the 
Father-Mind or Spirit shining upon us and producing an under- 
standing conscience, because of life in action as a power of Mind. 

Few of us realize and note the presence of truth within our 
own conscience as a prevailing, convincing and satisfying power 
of constructive good, quickening us into an healing conscious- 
ness of demonstrable law, thereby making us to know, because 
of the coercion of truth as a power of Mind. 



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Consciousness as a soul experience of spiritual perception in 
which is substantial discernment or discernment of substance 
within the realm of love, is Holiness ; love's substance as a state 
of constructive good. The everpresent presence of Being as the 
"I Am" of Mind. 

Consciousness as a soul experience of spiritual perception in 
which is active discernment or discernment of action within 
the realm of life, is Being; life's action as a state of constructive 
good. The energy of the thinking conscience in understanding 
spiritual being as the "I Will" of Mind. 

Consciousness as a soul experience of spiritual perception in 
which is perfect discernment or discernment of the perfect within 
the realm of truth, is Principle ; truth's perfection as a state of 
constructive good. The coercive power of the supreme law of per- 
fection as the "I Have and Can" of Mind. 

Therefore a state of life-action, love-substance, truth-perfec- 
tion alone can be expressed by a living conscience, for there is 
nothing known or knowable apart from a spiritual consciousness. 
The soul expression of the principle of right or perfect idea 
entities is that which constitutes our spiritual being and serves 
as our guide into eternal life. 

It is essential and very necessary that we have these ideas 
established within conscience as active living states of being 
or life. Without them in their rightful meaning of life-action, 
love-substance, truth-perfection given in the nine heads of the 
law, we are not able nor capable of keeping the commandments. 
Because of the false mortal concept of a threat of evil, which has 
not helped us to keep them one bit. 

Without Christ's law of life, love, truth, we cannot express a 
soul experience of that which is the keeping of the command- 
ments, consequently we are at the mercy of sense suggestion 
which at once substitutes a worthless counterfeit to take the 
place of the lawful spiritual meaning. 

To know a spiritual truth as a soul experience of God, or the 
law of good, is our one way to gain deliverance from evil, devil, 
which comes through sense suggestion and has no substance or 
foundation of reality. 



Being 2S7 

This battle with devil is fought out and lost or won within 
conscience alone. The battle is for our attention and service 
to a law of perfection in the expression of every right idea, and, 
an imperfect chaotic sense suggestion of a law, seemingly ex- 
pressed in destructive material conditions. When we realize this 
fact it is not hard to choose. 

A complete thought within conscience as an individuality is 
given one meaning by an indestructible law, which requires that 
we realize the life-love-truth-meaning alone concerning it. This 
law is that which compels us to be perfect in our expression of 
life-action, and thereby escape the coercive laws which are made 
by mortals. They cannot be added to the Christ-law, neither 
considered in any way, for the one law of righteousness is com- 
plete and perfect and covers all rightful consciousness in living. 

The one thing which we must do is to know this law of the 
Christ-righteousness and abide within it continually. Its be- 
ginning is given in the Star of Bethlehem and from what is 
there given the reader can go on into infinite extension of Mind's 
revelation. This principle of perfect thought will surely give to 
all those who study it an understanding of good and lead them 
into the realization of the Christ consciousness with its healing 
power to destroy fear and disease. 

True consciousness of being demands that we express the life- 
love-truth-meaning only in every interpretation which we make, 
and look with the intent of heart to see the good alone. If we are 
strong enough in our intent to see the good alone we shall not 
sense the presence of evil, for its suggestions will not be under- 
stood and therefore not attract us. 

When we make up our mind's action among the right ideas 
alone then there will be no appearance of evil, and soon we 
shall understand the three powers of Mind and gain an ability to 
use them rightfully. 

The beginning of the ninety-first Psalm expresses this abso- 
lute law most perfectly, for to abide in conscience with the law 
is to gain the protection of perfection. 

To be, is to be present, that is to come into spiritual under- 
standing and be of the one Presence. When we become spirit- 
ualized enough to look into space beyond material appearance, 



238 The Christ-Law 

and there behold the presence of the supreme law of perfection 
ruling all things in the life-action of life, then we come very 
close to Mind as the power of Spirit within this law. The better 
realization that we can get of this ruling power's presence and 
absolute ability to prevail, the further we get away from material 
law, as a law with power to rule in evil. 

As life is expressed by the living soul then within it lives all of 
that which is created good, all things of action, substance and 
perfection. The outline and boundary of this law of perfection is 
absolutely restricted to no variation at all, and we cannot hope to 
enter into life except through perfect understanding of the 
perfect law of the Christ. 

Our life and its manifest living must become absolutely free 
from allegiance to the testimony of the deceiving sense of mortals, 
all of which blind and darken our concepts of spiritual being. 
The knowledge of good as the way of the law of the Christ, 
gradually overcomes our allegiance to material experiences as the 
reality of true being; because a mental conception through law 
is translated from material belief into spiritual certainty. 

Whenever we are born into spiritual understanding and thereby 
come into perfect unity with the Christ-Mind, perceiving a clear 
realization of the perfection of spiritual law as the unassailable 
way of life, we shall discover many new relations with our Father. 
They will consist of revelations for which we have no symbols, 
experiences which we have not been over before; states of being 
which are purely spiritual, finer grained, more exquisite in their 
expression of life, higher in power and sacredness which will 
make the law more real. They will strengthen our faith into an 
healing consciousness with power and ability far above every 
thing mortal. 

Spiritualization will reveal the perfect child of God, and surely 
it shall manifest good works within him, because it is a law 
unassailable, irrevocable, indestructible, supreme, in God. 

How to Know Being. 

Just how can I gain a realization of spiritual being, in which 
I am to find my own selfhood in its likeness ? That I may reveal 



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or bring to light my reality in truth and right, for I am to find 
myself as a spiritual entity or mental being. 

First we must know the Christ meaning of the being which 
we reflect, and it is as follows: The truth-perfection of being is 
reality. The life-action of being is infinity. The love-substance 
of being is presence. 

Reality is expressed by all things which continue in con- 
structive goodness and love, and is found only within the realm 
of Spirit. We know intuitively within our own heart's con- 
science that its everlasting vitality compels presence and the law 
of right or truth, and that this constitutes all perfect being, 
therefore imperfection has no being. 

Infinity is the everlasting life-action of perfect being. It is 
universal law and is everywhere present in every conceivable 
way. It is absolute in its ruling every moment of time which 
gives us the concept of the eternal now, the everpresent presence 
of immortality as life-action. 

Presence is the perfect and continued manifestation of this law 
of infinite right in action as immutable and unchangeable being. 
Its substantial state of love and good is always the substance 
of being, which is our existence of immortal life-action as mental 
expression. 

We have but to look within our own hearts to find a living 
active conscience ever ready to express that which is eternal 
and good and thereby blossom out into radiant loveliness. This 
expresses our real selfhood as the perfect child of God. When 
an evil appearance comes up before us to darken our perception 
of the spiritual we should turn away from it and deny its power 
to attract or distract us from the immortal good. 

So closely are we attuned to our heavenly Father's love and 
law of good, that we cannot truthfully express anything but his 
perfect being, for this alone can be lived, loved, and known. The 
unity of mind with Mind is the office of this head of the law to 
reveal the life of Life. 



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The Christ-Law 



A Table of Comparison of Good and Evil Ideas in the 

Point of Being. 



Being 
Nothingness 



Reality 
Falsity 



j Infinity 
' Finiteness 



Presence 
Absence 



Spirituality 

Actuality 

Vitality 

Universality 

Absoluteness 

Eternity 

Perpetuity 

Immutability 

Existence 



Mortality 

Fable 

Spiritless 

Limitation 
Restriction 
Momentariness 

Cessation 

Changeableness 

Expiration 



BEING, the Life of Life, Versus NOTHINGNESS, as a 

Death Concept. 

Nothingness is no thought at all, merely a symbol to repre- 
sent a suggestion as absence, for nothingness cannot be thought. 
It has no meaning, for there is no absence anywhere in perfect 
presence. Presence occupies all space for all of the where that 
there is, is full of presence. 

It would be foolish to state that we are nothing, for it would 
not be true. We are something as active spiritual mentalities, ex- 
pressing states of good which have perfect being. Those things 
which seem to be — that is, have being or presence because they 
are sensed by mortals with their sense organs, have no spiritual 
being and are not known to Spirit. Their falsity is in the 
interpretation through mortal sense, consequently they have no 
spiritual or true meaning, because they have a beginning and an 
end in mortality. 

Death as nothingness is that which cannot be expressed through 
active mind and is made up of every mortal or death experience. 

God's universe is real, good and right, but the mortal inter- 
pretation of it through the deceiving and imperfect senses is 
very much at fault. It is through these mortal sense organs that 
we learn of evil, death, nothingness, and it is this testimony 
which blinds us to concepts of good. Interpretation made 
through the Christ law will destroy false concepts and evil. 



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REALITY, the Truth of Being, Versus FALSITY, as a 

False Concept. 

Falsity is self evident in its intent to deceive, and we must 
be very blind and heedless to be deceived by this open and daring 
error. We must awaken to the fact that there is no falsity any 
where which has the power and right of being, and which is 
able to do things in its own name. The law of right has the 
entire right of way so there is no place for falsity. 

Falsity is a state of consciousness of our own making from 
which we suffer because it is not of the law and cannot stand. 
It is a mortal imagination without being or substance. 

We must arise and know that God made all things perfect and 
good and that there is no call for us to substitute our thoughts 
for his. 

INFINITY, the Life of Being, Versus FINITENESS, as a 

Death Concept. 

Finiteness is mortal thoughtlessness as the things men make ; 
infinite being is the active law of God, that which has ability 
to finish and make perfect. The worthless imaginations of men 
are superfluous and sure to get those people into trouble who 
follow them. Finite things seem good to foolish mortals who 
cannot know anything but materiality, the finite child is their 
child, and they feel responsible for its being. We cannot put 
this finite child within the infinite law, for they cannot both 
equal the one perfect presence. 

PRESENCE, the Love of Being, Versus ABSENCE, as a 

Hate Concept. 

Absence is an unthinkable state of being to be in. To be at 
all is to be present, and absence is a mortal symbol to indicate a 
momentary change from place to place in mortality, and is a 
false concept because not universally present. 

Absence has no being as an entity or state of being and cannot 
be found, lived, nor expressed by any living being, for to be is 
to be eternally present. That which absence strives to signify 



242 The Christ-Law 

cannot be thought, known or understood, for presence alone is 
known as something. 



SPIRITUALITY, the Love of Reality, Versus MORTAL- 
ITY, as a Hate Concept. 

Mortality is the sense concept of death or that which has 
beginning and end; it is the belief that to this impotent mass of 
matter as the fleshly body is attached a mind as a necessary 
adjunct thereto. This animal sense organism known as brain 
is not mind nor of mind, for mind is of the soul and expresses 
life-action, love-substance, truth-perfection only as right ideas, 
not sense imaginations. 

This sense mind of mortals is helpless to do anything of itself, 
and its office is to register every suggestion from matter as 
an appearance, but not as a truth. 

ACTUALITY, the Truth of Reality, Versus FABLE, as a 

False Concept. 

Fable certainly is a tale of mortal imagination which does not 
pretend to have any being in truth, for they are fabrications pure 
and simple. Fable is not found within the Christ-law and there- 
fore is no part of truth. It is a dangerous practice to entertain 
this subtle error even when we know that we are indulging in 
imaginations, for it is not true and will not help us to know the 
truth. Fables are lies even if they do not deceive. 

Just as we declare with the intent of the heart do we become 
individualized, and for this reason we cannot afford to declare 
error in any form whatsoever or for any purpose. 

VITALITY, the Life of Reality, Versus SPIRITLESS, as 

a Death Concept. 

Spiritless is that mortal sense concept of thing which abides 
in material suggestions, refusing to act in harmony with life ; it is 
that useless sense of discouragement which blights all honest 
efforts to be useful and right. 






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To be spiritless does not lead us into the front ranks where 
things are accomplished, but remains in mortality as a worthless 
and dead nonentity. 

We must awake and know that we are not weak in mortality 
but that we are strong in spirituality, vital in life-action and able 
to do God's work. Vitality is our gift of active soul expression, 
our dominion over everything earthly. 

UNIVERSALITY, the Truth of Infinity, Versus LIMITA- 
TION, as a False Concept. 

Limitation is another death concept which hides from us the 
truth of being and destroys our progress into the kingdom of 
heaven. Limitation is augmented most effectually by man made 
laws which are personally coercive for the benefit of mortals 
instead of Christ. They are one prolific source of fear and con- 
fusion, and not until we arise above these laws of might in mor- 
tality which are substituted in the Christ's name for righteous- 
ness shall we be able to free ourselves from their limitation. 

Universal law is one state of being in the hearts of all men; 
it can not be improved upon neither prevailed against, and in it 
we shall not fear. 

ABSOLUTENESS, the Life of Infinity, Versus RESTRIC- 
TION, as a Death Concept. 

Restriction is a mortal law made by mortals for the aggrandize- 
ment of selfishness. Its intent is to exalt mortality above the 
law of right that a few may benefit in special privilege. This 
vicious mortal concept is the cause of much division among God's 
children, for its intent is destruction. The absolute law of the 
Christ is for every man alike and rules without respect to person 
and is the way of life and peace. 

There is no such thing as restricted right in this law of the 
Christ for his law is perfect, not imperfect. 

ETERNITY, the Love of Infinity, Versus MOMENTARI- 
NESS, as a Hate Concept. 

Momentariness is no part of the one infinite presence, for the 
eternal now cannot be divided, the never-ending action of the law 



244 The Christ-Law 

is not suspended for an instant that one moment may be com- 
pleted. This mortal concept of finished time is no part of im- 
mortal life, but is rather the false mortal concept of end in death. 
It is the impotence of mortality standing up before eternal life- 
action as something, and must be overcome through knowing the 
truth of being in all right ideas of the law of perfection. The 
eternal now of right being is very near our conscience and can 
be grasped with certainty and known as a fact in our lives. 

PERPETUITY, the Life of Presence, Versus CESSATION 

as a Death Concept. 

Cessation or death is certainly a fearful concept, and has in it 
a sting of offense, which is intended to frighten and cause all 
of the organs of the body or being to stop action. But pres- 
ence cannot be stopped, neither can we as active living entities 
cease our spiritual presence. Once gaining the understanding of 
the allness of the Christ-law, we see clearly that all is life-action 
and that there is no cessation except in the false mortal conscious- 
ness. Once realizing spiritual life as the everpresent law of 
righteousness, then death loses its old-time meaning of an end 
and means a change in appearance only. 

IMMUTABILITY, the Love of Presence, Versus CHANGE- 
ABLENESS, as a Hate Concept. 

Changeableness is mortality exemplified in its efforts to pre- 
vail. It keeps switching from one impotent belief to another in 
the hopeless endeavor to find a footing and gain recognition. 
Mortal changeableness in its greed of selfishness manifests utter 
destruction to those who follow it. Its constant manifestation of 
failure keeps the road hot with the tread of mortals, in a wild 
struggle to save self from the consuming flame of the Christ-law 
of universal right. This law has already overcome mortality and 
set the seal of nothingness upon it. 

EXISTENCE, the Truth of Presence, Versus EXPIRA- 
TION, as a False Concept. 

Expiration is a mortal imagination, and is without meaning 
save that of an end in belief. Expiration is a mortal interpreta- 






Being 245 

tion of the real progress of life-action, bat as mortality is death 
in experience it cannot understand life-action. Mortals know 
nothing beyond mortality or the self concept of being, but this 
false sensation must disappear that true spiritual being may ap- 
pear. That which seemingly expires is our false concept of mor- 
tality as an unlawful interpretation of being through mortal 
sense organism. Existence is within Spirit and not within ma- 
terial appearance or sense impressions. 

How to Know Being. 

In the foregoing pages there are some very important facts 
for us to master, doubtless some changes in our way of thinking 
which will be more or less difficult to overcome, because we cannot 
gain our own consent to do so. If these seeming obstacles are 
not mastered we shall find trouble in the future efforts which we 
make to heal ourselves and others, for our chain of true law will 
be broken and we shall be helpless to understand. 

There is one way of perfect right, whether we like it or not, 
and it alone in its purity must be followed absolutely. It may 
be days or even weeks before we can gain our own consent to 
acknowledge the allness of good and perceive clearly the one 
rightness of such an argument. Then, experience the mind-action 
in manifestation upon our bodies, for body is under the control 
of mind-action either for good or evil. It is a demonstrable 
fact that the body attunes itself in perfect harmony with the 
active mind and that it abides under its influence. 

The subject of healing is contained in knowing the facts of 
the Christ-law of good and love, and we have our Saviour's word 
for it that we shall know the truth, and that it is the knowing of 
this truth which is to make us free from mortal imaginations. 

We cannot know a lie, for it has no truth or substance to be 
known, there is no true being there to express. This leaves us 
with the law of truth alone as that which has being and that 
which can be expressed. 

When we have accomplished the change of thought in this 
point of the Star and turned from following two standards of in- 
terpretation as those of sense and soul, we may begin to study the 



246 The Christ-Law 

following tables with an assurance of gaining their spiritual ex- 
pression. 

We shall then come into a new birth of understanding, which is 
that mind-action is all action, and therein be delivered from 
sense suggestion and the terror of death concepts as a result 
and reward of sin, fury and confusion. 

The following pages should be studied in conjunction with the 
Star: 

The Tables of the Eighth Point of the Star of Being. 

Table One. 
The life-action of active Life equals life's active Being. 

Table Two. 

The truth-perfection of active Being equals love's substantial 
Reality. 

The life-action of active Being equals life's active Infinity. 
The love-substance of active Being equals truth's perfect Pres- 
ence. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Being in the third revelation of Mind are Reality, 
Infinity, Presence. These ideas represent Being. 

Table Three. 

The love-substance of perfect Reality equals life's active Spir- 
ituality. 

The truth-perfection of perfect Reality equals truth's perfect 
Actuality. 

The life-action of perfect Reality equals love's substantial 
Vitality. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Reality in the fourth revelation of Mind are 
Spirituality, Actuality, Vitality. These ideas represent Reality. 



Being 247 

Table Four. 

The truth-perfection of active Infinity equals love's substantial 
Universality. 

The life-action of active Infinity equals life's active Absolute- 
ness. 

The love-substance of active Infinity equals truth's perfect 
Eternity. 

Therefore the counterparts or the deevloped meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Infinity in the fourth revelation of Mind are 
Universality, Absoluteness, Eternity. These ideas represent In- 
finity. 

Table Five. 

The life-action of substantial Presence equals truth's perfect 
Perpetuity. 

The love-substance of substantial Presence equals love's sub- 
stantial Immutability. 

The truth-perfection of substantial Presence equals life's active 
Existence. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Presence in the fourth revelation of Mind are 
Perpetuity, Immutability, Existence. These three ideas repre- 
sent Presence. 

In the same way that we studied the preceding tables must 
we study these, for we are to profit only by knowing their spir- 
itual meaning, and thereby be able to express them as a soul ex- 
perience of the Christ-law. 

Having these established within consciousness we shall be able 
to interpret the scriptures according to one right meaning, which 
is not one of mortal opinion, but is the ever-present universal law 
of right. 

It is spiritually perceived and leads us into the kingdom of 
harmony through an ability to heal every erroneous state of 
being. 

The Association of the Ideas Within the Point of the Star 

of Being. 

The association of the ideas within this point and those of the 
other points will reveal the way of our growth, for the relation 



248 The Christ-Law 

of these ideas with others gives them meaning and helps to es 
tablish them in consciousness. These are the spiritual states of 
being which are to be known and to give us power to prevail over 
evil suggestion from the source of sense testimony. 

Beginning with reality, we find that it has a relation with con- 
secration^ and is perfected in the knowledge of science. 

Infinity is related with sanctity and is perfected in law. 

Presence is related with purity and is perfected in order. 

These related ideas are one concept of Being which is com- 
plete in its life-love-truth-meaning, and enables us to grasp the 
full understanding of Being. 

Out of the consciousness of creation comes to us a realization 
of something which is real and true, something which is not man 
made and impotent, but universal law as reality. 

Out of the concept of creation and reality do we get the un- 
derstanding of infinity. We are taught thereby its exact meaning 
as a state of consciousness and enabled to express it. 

Out of reality and infinity as infinite reality do we get the 
realization of presence, not as material objects, but as a spiritual 
law of being within us. 

And now, when we take them all together, we find that being 
and its counterparts mean one and the same thing, for a real 
infinite presence would surely equal immortal being. 

Out of construction and goodness comes the perfect idea of 
spirituality as that state of consciousness which is immortal and 
Christlike. 

Out of goodness and spirituality comes the concept of actuality 
as that state of being which is real and true. 

Out of spirituality and actuality we get the concept of vitality, 
which is one of active life, in its energy of living every good idea 
as a state of perfect being. 

Out of actuality and vitality comes the realization of uni- 
versality, the universal life-action which makes up the realm of 
the universe. It is within this Universality as law that we move 
and have our being. 

Out of vitality and universality comes the concept of absolute- 
ness as that which cannot be overcome and destroved. That which 






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is fixed and permanent for all time as the ever-present now of 
presence. 

Out of universality and absoluteness comes the concept of one 
eternal now as eternity , the never-ending life-action of Mind. 

Out of absoluteness and eternity is revealed unto us the mean- 
ing of perpetuity as the never-ending perfect presence. 

Out of eternity and perpetuity comes the concept of immuta- 
bility which is the one state of perfect right as a law of presence. 

Out of perpetuity and immutability comes the concept of ex- 
istence as spiritual law, for there is none other law which can 
be known and lived, and manifest the action of life. 

These are the ideas of the point of Being as far as the fourth 
revelation of Mind's meaning. They give us a good start in find- 
ing out just what Mind means, also of spiritual being as ex- 
pressed by God's children. 

These relations within this point of the Star must be studied 
until we fully realize their connection with our conscience and 
its power to express a spiritual state of being. 

The more familiar that we become with them the greater 
power of expression will we have and the quicker and better 
healing will we do. 

Bible Records as Related to the Law of Being. 
The Eighth Commandment. 

In Exodus 20:2 and 15, we read "I am the Lord thy God 
which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the 
house of bondage." Therefore — 

"Thou shalt not steal." 

Having been lifted up above mortal imaginations and given 
true knowledge of intelligence and thereby come into being as 
a state of realized spirituality, we shall not want or be able to 
find anything of which we have .not already an abundance. 
Everything of true being is already ours and it is just like our 
neighbor's, therefore we shall not steal, cannot steal, for this 
concept in its falsity has been lost to conscience. 

Having free access to our Father's supply, from which no 
power can cut us off, then we shall not want in any way or for 
anything. 



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Our Father's perfect law of righteousness is all that we can 
possibly know or receive in truth. It is absolutely free to all men 
and cannot be contaminated with mortal laws of coercion and self- 
ishness. No one shall presume to mortgage this law and exploit 
it for their own especial benefit. 

God's word is given to all men freely and cannot be hemmed 
in, withheld from some and protected by impotent man-made 
laws for others, for it is supreme and free. When we realize this 
fact and arise above mortalitv, then shall we have found the king;- 
dom of heaven within and all other things addec}.' 

There will be nothing unlawful worth our stealing, and as all 
things lawful are already ours we shall not perceive the mortal 
concept of theft, for we shall have overcome this belief. 

The Eighth Beatitude. 

In Matt. 5:10, we read the eighth beatitude. 

"Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness sake; 
for theirs' is the kingdom of heaven." 

There is a meaning and application very near home in this 
beatitude. The children of Israel should take notice, for Christ's 
blessing upon this head of the law is the one which we are all 
striving to attain and manifest. To faithfully serve the law of 
righteousness in the business world of today is no worse than it 
ever was because we have the same mortal traits of character to 
contend with, as those of greed and selfishness. 

To be sure, the time of open persecution because of worshiping 
Christ in absoluteness has gone by, but it is still done craftily and 
secretly through mental means as in evil treatments in hate in- 
stead of love. 

These mortals in their ignorance who are striving to force 
either coercion or death upon others are sowing a whirlwind of 
fury for themselves, and their work of hate shall not prevail 
against the true disciple of the Christ. 

When an honest person shall undertake to live righteously and 
serve the Christ in all that he does he is brought forcibly in con- 
tact with the deceitful, grafting, selfish interests, with the ego- 
tistical, heartless money getters who stop at nothing to win. 



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Those already dead mortals who sacrifice the innocent trust and 
love of right to their god of profit, little knowing that it is their 
own death. But blessed is he that is apart from these things. 

This opposition of the mortal in death expressions who sees 
no further than the ill-gotten gain within his hand does not ter- 
rify the man who is born of God and his wisdom, and who realizes 
the everlasting power of righteousness. He seeks not to get the 
death which is hidden within these material possessions, but is 
content with a just profit, and does not lack for food and the 
needs of living. 

The Lord's Prayer. 

In Matt. 6:13, we read the eighth section of the Lord's Prayer. 

"But deliver us from evil." 

To gain a concept of life within the Christ-Mind as construc- 
tive good will surely deliver us from the death concept of evil. 
Our concepts of evil come to us through the sense imaginations 
of mortality, and when we enter into the intelligence of the law 
we find true being in Christ. 

True soul interpretations of the law of life-love-truth will 
deliver us from the evil sense interpretations which bring confu- 
sion and fury into our experiences. This point of the Star when 
known will lead us out of the way of evil thinking, for the death 
concepts will not be expressed. 

Being as the life of life is our immortal existence in the law 
and is unknown to the deceiving sense in its suggestions of fail- 
ure and death as evil expression. 

The Sermon on the Mount. 

In Matt. 7:13 to 21, we read what Jesus had to say about the 
law of being as the life of life. He tells us that we must separate 
the concepts of death from those of life; that is, the seeming 
reality of materiality from the certain reality of spirituality ex- 
pressed in the soul. 

We are warned to be ever watchful that we may distinguish 
the right from the wrong and learn the good which is within the 
right. 

In verse 13, he says, "Enter in at the strait gate" — that is, 
enter into life through knowing the straight law as an absolute 



252 The Christ-Law 

way, enter into real or right being as the life within Spirit. Then 
he said that the attractions and distractions or sense appearance 
of those things of outer darkness which deceive are many and 
that the way of them is broad and that it is strewn with errors of 
destructions. The temptations of mortals to follow after mor- 
tality are very great and cannot be overcome without the help 
of our Father. 

Jesus says that there are many who go over this road for the 
sake of enjoying its attractions and then suffer its distractions, but 
that because the way of the law is absolute and strait, uncom- 
promising and coercive in its rulings, and being narrow in its 
straitness of right, not varying or deviating at all; that for 
this reason few people shall care to or be able to enter into the 
kingdom of heaven. Its demands will be more than they can 
endure; that is, perfection is too high a standard for the majority 
of mortals to attain. 

He bids us to beware of false prophets who for some reason 
corrupt the presentation of the one perfect law of righteousness 
to make it easy for people and to conform to their desires ; that 
is, so that they can retain their errors of mortality. But he says 
that we shall know them by their works. They cannot help but 
expose their true nature, and the evil within their hearts will 
come to the surface where it can be seen. 

Grapes do not bear thorns, neither do thistles bear figs, but an 
evil heart will give forth evil expression and it cannot help 
doing it. 

Jesus says that a good tree as that of the law of righteousness 
within our heart's consciousness will bear good works and mani- 
fest true being, and that just as we are in heart that fruit will 
be born of this intent. 

The law of being as the life of life is a good tree, and will give 
forth good works as fruit to all who follow it. But everyone 
who shall not follow it shall bear evil fruit and be cut down there- 
by, the sorrow and fire of fear within mortality shall hew at the 
roots of this being and he shall be cast down. Fruit as an abil- 
ity to heal the sick and reform the sinning conscience through 
concepts of the law of the Christ are found within this head of 
the law of Being. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

WISDOM 

the Love of Ltfe. 

A Law of Substantial Spiritual Expression. 

Wisdom as the love-substance of life is the sealing power of 
knowledge through love's possession within the realm of life. 
Wisdom is the third power of Mind which compels us to know 
because of the convincing evidence of love's presence in pos- 
session. 

When we realize the substantial possession of constructive good 
in wisdom, and have those ideas which constitute wisdom firmly 
fixed in our conscience, we shall have a mighty power of right 
thought to prevail against every sense suggestion. The things 
of the carnal mind which always give offense and which cause 
sin as transgression of the law will be overcome. 

When we know truth's substance as found in righteousness, 
and life's substance as found in wisdom, also love's substance as 
found in holiness, then shall we be free from the sting of offense 
as hate within the mortal consciousness. Its ignorance and im- 
potence shall not overcome us because we know substantial love 
as a possession, for perfect love casteth out all hate from our 
conscience. 

When we know life's perfection as found in intelligence, and 
love's perfection as found in harmony, and truth's perfection 
as found in principle, we shall be free from falsehood as a sense 
illusion. The counterfeit will no longer pass as legal within 
our thoughts because we know the three phases of truth in per- 
fection. It is even as our Saviour said, "Ye shall know the truth, 
and the truth shall make you free." 



254 The Christ-Law 

When we know love's action as found in obedience, and truth's 
action as found in dominion, also life's action as found in being, 
we shall be whole indeed and free from sin, sickness and disease. 

We shall have to experience this knowing within the soul as an 
expression of love's substance, truth's perfection, also life's ac- 
tion, and realize that it is the testimony of Spirit to our spirit 
in the conscience, for this conscience is our one and only place 
and source of authoritative knowing. The seat of wisdom is 
there. The law of God expressed therein. 

In the above is revealed the way of perfect understanding 
through the powers of Mind. The real and true law is given in 
the life-love-truth-meaning of the Christ-Mind, and every right 
idea which comes into conscience must be measured by this one 
true standard. Those ideas which can stand the test of the meas- 
ure of good and are within the law of life-love-truth are entitled 
to claim the source and authority of Spirit. These ideas alone 
are worthy of our allegiance and they alone will lead us into 
the realm of wisdom. 

Therefore every idea which comes into conscience must have 
the approval and manifest the evident presence of every head of 
the law, before it can claim to be a right and perfect state of 
conscious being, useful to men in making them wise in their 
thoughts. 

This is a tremendous test both as to the idea's spirituality and 
our own spiritual development and ability to perceive and under- 
stand wherein the nine heads of the law are present and how 
they apply. 

There is no alternative for us but to obey, no choice of laws, 
for there is one law only, and when we satisfy its demands we 
shall find it sure and final in its ruling. By this is meant that 
we must arise to the heights of wisdom and deny our own selfish 
desires and ambitions in order to attain wisdom. 

The following will make this even more clearly discerned, and 
is a part of the law of Mind. When justice is seated within our 
conscience, its presence therein testifies of righteousness, wisdom, 
holiness, as the substance of love made manifest. It also testifies 
of intelligence, harmony and principle, as the perfection of the 



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law in truth. Again, of obedience, dominion and being, as the 
life-action within the law. 

Thus we see that justice testifies of the entire nine heads of 
the law and enables us to know the full meaning of this idea as 
a state of consciousness in its perfection and complete use. 

It will be seen that this test for all ideas which we shall learn 
to use and obey covers the wisdom of the law in all of its re- 
quirements. 

This may seem a good deal of a task to perform in order to 
gain a perfect knowledge of the law pertaining to ideas as states 
of conscious being, but if we would learn them to some use and 
purpose this is the one sure way which will bring results. In 
the declaration of these right ideas does our conscience become 
like them, not in the sense appearance as seen in others, but in 
the soul experience of them within our own conscience. Through 
them are we elevated into truth's active dominion, into life's sub- 
stantial wisdom and also into love's perfect harmony. 

By these spiritual concepts of the law is our conscience sealed 
and made perfect through the powers of Mind; we are given an 
understanding of the presence of the kingdom of heaven within. 

Intelligence as the truth of life, because of its perfect action, 
is bound to produce energy as a spontaneous action of mind in 
the will to understand and know. This constitutes our conscience 
at work manifesting the living energy of being. To this living 
energy of active life we adhere because it is understood and pro- 
duces a realization of constructive good, all of which is satis- 
factory and final. This living, active Spirit works within our 
conscience to produce the love-substance of life or wisdom. As 
constructive good is all that is understood, then we cannot under- 
stand, neither know, until we have reached the state of wisdom 
in each right idea, which is to come into our possession as con- 
structive good in action. Therefore all ideas in Mind symbolizing 
life's action as constructive good are fulfilled and our knowing 
sealed within conscience through the possession of love's sub- 
stance. That is, all life as constructive good becomes all power- 
ful when perceived as substance. 



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Wisdom is the substantial substance of all perfect law, and in- 
cludes every right idea within the law, for it is the substance of 
all thought. 

How to Know Wisdom. 

How can I gain an understanding of the ninth head of the 
law in wisdom in order to complete the possession of the three 
powers of Mind which compel the conscience to receive the law? 
For this point of the Star is the final touch of enlightenment to 
the children of God, whose children are justified by wisdom. 

First, by gaining an understanding of the Christ meaning of 
wisdom. Demonstration is the life-action of wisdom. Sagacity 
is the love-substance of wisdom. Knowledge is the truth-perfec- 
tion of wisdom. 

Demonstration is the complete proof to manifest the possession 
of wisdom, the ability through actual knowledge of the law by 
knowing just how to use it under all circumstances. 

Sagacity is a discerning and penetrating power of mind equal 
at all times to any emergency, tranquil and confident in perspi- 
cacity and sageness and able fully to grasp the profound things 
of the law. Ever equal to the associations and relations of perfect 
thoughts as states of being and their application to our lives. 

Knowledge is the completed and perfected state of informa- 
tion as portrayed by the thoughts of God or perfect idea entities, 
those states of right being which God created in the beginning 
and made complete and perfect, finished and gave to his offspring 
to produce, with the command that they should walk therein and 
become perfect. It is these states of perfect Mind expression 
which constitute the realm of wisdom. Erudite comprehension 
of God's thoughts bring us into close touch with the law wherein 
knowledge is perceived to be the expression of life-action, love- 
substance, truth-perfection. 

To be wise in wisdom is to express an understanding conscious- 
ness of the infinite relations and associations of life-action, love- 
substance, truth-perfection, in its ever-expanding circle of Mind's 
revelations. This is our immortal life-action in attaining unto 
God's wisdom in the spiritual development of the soul's knowing 
of constructive good as all. 



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Wisdom as the love-substance of life-action is the last point 
of the Star and is to signify the actual possession of substantial 
love within conscience. The power of attraction of love or good 
within wisdom which we would possess is that power of Mind 
which compels us to know when it is possessed. 

Wisdom is the result of perfect knowledge about the relation 
of love ideas the one with the other. It is a state of constant 
growth and progress with each individual, and it is the action 
of mental faculties upon these relations in their triple meaning 
which constitutes our understanding and the fullness of wisdom. 

Mind without its triple meaning of life, love, truth, with which 
we can exercise our thought in comparisons and gain an active 
meaning thereby, could not otherwise be understood, because 
there would not be occasion for mind action which gives life and 
understanding. 

As it is in mathematics that the thought of 2 plus 2 gives need 
for a third concept as 4, so it is in other branches of thought, 
for the sum of life and love equal truth, the sum of love and truth 
equal life and the sum of truth and life equal love. Here we have 
our start in the relation of Mind ideas, and this law is carried 
out into infinite being. 

In the following examples it will be well to consult the diagram 
of the Star in order to see the relation of the three realms of life, 
love, truth ideas pertaining to the same concept in its fullness: 

Obedient righteousness equals intelligence. 
Infallible demonstration equals peace. 
Knowledge and freedom equal power. 
Comprehension and health equal finality. 
Absolute grace equals standard. 
Experience and allegiance equal reason. 

These are a few of the relations which will open the way to 
further thought by the individual. For there is no thought or 
understanding except in the realization of God's presence in 
things ; that is, in the action of life in its relation to love and 
truth. 



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The Christ-Law 



This is wisdom and covers every phase of mental being as 
soul expressions of the law. They are ours to have just as soon 
as we get ready to work and attain them, but this method of 
thought action according to a fixed law of life-action, love-sub- 
stance, truth-perfection is absolute in its demands. For this rea- 
son few will consent to give up the personality of mortality in 
order to gain the absolute expression of the law. 

No one today knows just what can be demonstrated by the 
continued effort to express this law of absolute Christianity in 
which no material laws figure as a help to truth's prevailing. 

Wisdom is the love-substance of life, and the intelligent being 
as an offspring from the Father-Mind or Spirit expresses right 
ideas in its mental action only. Solomon and David both realized 
this fact perfectly, for it is given by them in the records left in 
Prov. 1 :23, "I will pour out my spirit upon you, I will make 
known my words unto you." 

In Prov. 4:7, "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get 
wisdom, and with all thy getting get understanding." 

Psalms 19:7, "The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the 
soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple." 



A Table of Comparison of Good and Evil Ideas in the 

Point of Wisdom. 



Wisdom 
Idiocy 



Demonstration j p- n J 
Neglect 



i Sagacity 
Foolishness 



Knowledge 
Imagination 



Sufficiency 
Mystery 
( Manifestation Supposition 



( Attainment 
■s Perspicuity 
( Sageness 



Superstition 

Ambiguity 

Silliness 



( Information Illusion 
■j Erudition Illiteracy 

/ Comprehension Void 






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WISDOM, the Love of Life, versus IDIOCY, as a Hate 

Concept. 

Idiocy is a death manifestation and is without being, every 
mortal imagination coming from sense suggestion is the same 
thing from the standpoint of spiritual reality, because it can- 
not be accounted for through reason in wisdom. It is the same 
sense mind which expresses idiocy and also the nothingness of 
death in every sensation of evil. 

It is impossible to conceive of an all-powerful law of right 
which expresses supreme and absolute wisdom in the perfection 
of all things to express idiocy also in conjunction with supreme 
perfection. 

We know that there is no such concept within the law of the 
Christ-Mind, neither can we find a place for such a sense of noth- 
ingness in the realm of life. Therefore it must be a false expres- 
sion of the carnal mind of mortals or an imagination, a fabric 
of superstition, a product of that deceiving sense which leads to 
murder, theft and blasphemy. 

We must not overlook the fact that the great mass of mortals 
abide within this same sense-mind and partake of its destruction 
daily. 

Wisdom is the expression of the ideas of God in his law of 
good alone, they manifest the power which is inherent within 
spiritual expression and lead every mortal out of his illusion of 
the reality of sense testimony. 

DEMONSTRATION, the Love of Wisdom, versus DE- 
FAULT, as a Death Concept. 

Default is a very common expression among mortals, and is a 
very erroneous state to be in, for it surely condemns us in the 
eyes of our neighbor as well as in the judgment of the law. 

We must understand that we were not wise in not using the 
law to help us do our work in solving our problem, but through 
self-will our efforts proved of no avail. 

Without law and order as power of spirit to save us from dis- 
aster we would be helpless, for we alone are impotent; we must 



260 The Christ-Law 

seek the understanding of the law's action in real life and abide 
under the banner of the Christ if we desire to surely and cer- 
tainly succeed. 

SAGACITY, the Love of Wisdom, versus FOOLISHNESS, 

as a Hate Concept. 

Foolishness is such a common word among mortals that it 
seems almost unwise to say a word about it; this may be the 
very reason why a word should be said, for to have and hold 
this condemnatory concept within consciousness is sure bondage 
to mortality in expressing destruction. 

The less that we think of foolishness and our mistakes the 
further will we get away from them and their influence, for this 
very thing is that which hides the truth of the right in the law. 

Sagacity is manifest in the perseverance of good thoughts and 
by refusing to listen to the suggestions of the bad ones. 

KNOWLEDGE, the Truth of Wisdom, versus IMAGINA- 
TION, as a False Concept. 

Imagination is the thing which holds us in the grasp of death 
and fury, confusion and ignorance. How very different is knowl- 
edge in its satisfying power from the imaginations of the mortal- 
sense-mihd, none of which can be understood, for they are not 
true, but supply us with our concept of mystery and confusion ! 

Superstitious imaginations instill fear into our conscience, 
which is no part of God's wisdom, based upon an absolute law of 
love and good. This absolute law must be our food daily until 
we receive wisdom and command all conditions with certainty. 

COMPLETION, the Truth of Demonstration, versus SUF- 
FICIENCY, as a False Concept. 

Sufficiency is a very subtle state of mortal consciousness, for 
its intent is to defraud us out of the concept of perfection. We 
must not be satisfied with sufficiency, for there is no life nor 
peace within it. The mortal expression of good enough is a bad 






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one, for it stops just this side of being perfect, in which we never 
attain perfection. 

This concept will defeat demonstration and prevent us from 
becoming perfect within the law; we must be complete in the 
law's expression and cannot be satisfied with halfway measures 
if we would put off the stigma of mortal consciousness in error. 

PROOF, the Life of Demonstration, versus MYSTERY, as 

a Death Concept. 

Mystery is the sense of confusion and comes to us because of 
not understanding; it is a mortal belief in something which is not 
known, something apart from the regular law and order of the 
Christ-Mind. Nothing comes to us from the sense of mystery 
but fear, and everyone knows that this is not good or love. That 
which can be known is not mysterious, but that which cannot be 
known is a constant worry, even until we perceive its destruc- 
tive intent and nature, when we overcome it by turning to that 
which satisfies. 

There is no mystery within the perfect law of the Christ for 
every right idea is understood and expressed without confusion. 

MANIFESTATION, the Love of Demonstration, versus 
SUPPOSITION, as a Hate Concept. 

Supposition is a mortal suggestion without any authority be- 
hind it as a foundation of substance. Its intent is to put upon us 
a counterfeit state of being as a death concept in the place of a 
lawful expression of life-action. Its assumption and claim is to 
attract or distract our attention, and in this way lead us astray 
and away from the Christ. 

As assumption, suppostion or suggestion is not found within 
the Christ-law, then we must not notice its demands and preten- 
sions, for they are nothingness and cannot be manifested. Mani- 
festation of the Christ-law alone will lead us into the Christ con- 
sciousness of spiritual healing. 



262 The Christ-Law 

ATTAINMENT, the Life of Sagacity, versus SUPERSTI- 
TION, as a Death Concept. 

Superstition is a mortal error in bondage to ignorance, in which 
fear holds sway and keeps the individual in blindness. People 
seldom gain their freedom until they come into contact with 
God's perfect law; then they find a heart's realization which 
seems to have always been there, but has been covered up. When 
this spiritual sense is once discovered the foolish, superstitious, 
meaningless imagination is cast out forever. 

To attain this knowledge of absolute law is to gain power and 
dominion over superstition, for everything is reduced to facts and 
certainty. 

The mortal consciousness as the source of all superstition is 
laid aside as untrustworthy, and the superstitious religious rites 
installed by unscrupulous men that they might rule others 
through fear are overcome. 

PERSPICUITY, the Love of Sagacity, versus AMBIG- 
UITY, as a Hate Concept. 

Ambiguity is the result of attention to sense suggestion which 
cannot be understood. It is an imaginary concept of the mortal 
sense-mind and has no true meaning ; that is, no life-love-truth- 
meaning. Its use is sure bondage to mortality and is confusion 
in sense belief, for it is not of the law of intelligence as facts 
of being in perfection which can be absolutely known. Perspi- 
cuity as the substance of sagacity is that state of spiritual con- 
sciousness which we should all strive to attain, for it has the 
ability to make us understand and gain the right. 

Ambiguity as fear and ignorance in death thoughts of mortal 
mind, are not the states of conscience which express life and are 
to be avoided. 

SAGENESS, the Truth of Sagacity, versus SILLINESS, as 

a False Concept. 

Silliness is a mark of thoughtlessness, also a mark of mortality, 
and is the result of having listened to sense testimony which alone 






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makes us silly and foolish in our ways. It is a sign of a darkened 
consciousness, self conscious and blind to the presence of the law, 
utterly unreliable and does not express intelligence. When we 
awake to the grandeur, power and might of sageness as a spiritual 
state of being and realize the advantage it gives to its possessor 
we will avoid silliness. 



INFORMATION, the Love of Knowledge, versus ILLU- 
SION, as a Hate Concept. 

Illusion is the false impression which the appearances of mat- 
ter gives to the thoughtless person. Our false sense interpreta- 
tions as to the reality of material appearances are the cause of 
our illusions and many of our mistakes. We must learn to abide 
by the testimony of the soul in perfect spiritual facts as knowl- 
edge, as expressions of the law of one right in the Christ-law. 
By this only are we delivered from sense testimony and escape 
the fury and confusion of sense falsity. True information is 
given in the soul and destroys all illusion through its final testi- 
mony. 

ERUDITION, the Truth of Knowledge, versus ILLIT- 
ERACY, as a False Concept. 

Illiteracy suggests the absence of intelligence. It is a mortal 
consciousness in which there is no truth, for intelligence is never 
absent. 

It is not a state of being having power as an entity, for intelli- 
gence is the one thing which has power and being. The carnal 
mind suggests that we are nothing and also illiterate, and worse, 
that we all believe this lie and abide within its influence. 

We must not lose sight of the fact of the law's presence, but 
hold fast to the consciousness of life-action, love-substance, truth- 
perfection, for in this way will we overcome the belief and false 
impression that we are illiterate. We are soul entities and not il- 
literate mortals, for it is the evil mortal sense which is illiterate 
and nothingness. 



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COMPREHENSION, the Life of Knowledge, versus VOID, 

as a Death Concept. 

Void is a mortal concept of absence; it would have the law 
of truth and right inactive and reduced to nothingness, and more, 
it would have us use our God-given gift of thought-action to pro- 
duce this state of void thought or nothingness. Sense impression 
or the illusion of appearance is the cause of our mistakes, and 
behind them is nothingness. Comprehension is the acceptance 
of good as the law of right; its spiritual power prevails at all 
times and holds us in perfection because it is perfect. Compre- 
hension of immortality is surely wisdom and will overcome void 
mortality. 

How to Know Wisdom. 

Having gained supremacy over the false concept given in the 
past pages, we are ready to enter into the law of immortal truth. 
We have satisfied ourselves that sense appearances are not im- 
mortal, and in fact, they are not at all in the realm of truth. 
Within our conscience is an active spiritual being as the thinking 
soul, which expresses the law of the Christ alone, in it alone 
do we live and move and have true being, and this fact must be 
grasped firmly and held fast. 

The truth about every object of matter is its life-action, love- 
substance, truth-perfection. All other interpretations are false 
sense suggestions, death appearances, impressions as sense illu- 
sions and not true. 

The concept of fear coming through sense analysis and the in- 
terpretation of mortals in determining that which is real and true 
is at fault. Because when we abide within the consciousness of 
the law we lose every bit of fear and do not understand the tes- 
timony of the carnal-sense-mind. 

The following tables are intended to give a definite method 
of attaining this law of righteousness in expression, which is to 
utterly annihilate the power and right of sense testimony in mor- 
tality. 

To annihilate a wrong impression or interpretation through 
false imperfect sense organs, is not to annihilate the universe. 



Wisdom 265 

but rather a false concept of the universe. It is not to annihilate 
thought, but is to learn to avoid unlawful use of our gift of 
thought. That which we are to understand by these pages is that 
our mortal concept of things is at fault and not the things them- 
selves. We must learn to go deeper than the surface of sense 
testimony; we must penetrate the depths of reason until we reach 
the testimony of truth within the soul, wherein alone do we get a 
true answer which satisfies and which is final. 

The wise man will filter all sense testimony through the realm 
of reason, where it is purified and made clean before it reaches 
the soul, so that when we give it forth it will be in accordance 
with the Christ-law. 

The following pages should be studied in conjunction with the 
diagram of the Star of Bethlehem. 

The Tables of the Ninth Point of the Star of Wisdom. 

Table One. 

The love-substance of active Life equals truth's perfect Wis- 
dom. 

Table Two. 

The life-action of substantial Wisdom equals truth's perfect 
Demonstration. 

The love-substance of substantial Wisdom equals love's sub- 
stantial Sagacity. 

The truth-perfection of substantial Wisdom equals life's active 
Knowledge. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Wisdom in the third revelation of Mind are 
Demonstration, Sagacity, Knowledge. These ideas represent 
Wisdom. 

Table Three. 

The truth-perfection of active Demonstration equals love's sub- 
stantial Completion. 

The life-action of active Demonstration equals life's active 
Proof. 



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The love-substance of active Demonstration equals truth's 
perfect Manifestation. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Demonstration in the fourth revelation of Mind 
are Completion, Proof, Manifestation. These ideas represent 
Demonstration. 

Table Four. 

The life-action of substantial Sagacity equals truth's perfect 
Attainment. 

The love-substance of substantial Sagacity equals love's sub- 
stantial Perspicuity. 

The truth-perfection of substantial Sagacity equals life's active 
Sageness. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Sagacity in the fourth revelation of Mind are At- 
tainment, Perspicuity, Sageness. These ideas represent Sagacity. 

Table Five. 

The love-substance of perfect Knowledge equals life's active 
Information. 

The truth-perfection of perfect Knowledge equals truth's per- 
fect Erudition. 

The life-action of perfect Knowledge equals love's substantial 
Comprehension. 

Therefore the counterparts or the developed meaning of the 
Christ-Mind of Knowledge in the fourth revelation of Mind are 
Information, Erudition, Comprehension. These ideas represent 
Knowledge. 

These are the tables within the ninth head of the law and are 
to be committed so as to have them fixed in mind for use when 
needed. 

They are to be soul expressions as states of spiritual being, 
and when understood will reveal our immortal life-action, which 
is not to die. 



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The inherent power within these words as that of the Christ's 
perfect law will lead us into an understanding of God and his 
law of good. 

We will no longer be attracted, neither distracted, by the evil 
appearances which are flouted at us from outer darkness as sense 
suggestions of death and fury. 

The Relation of the Ideas Within the Point of Wisdom. 

The ideas of this point of the Star are intended to give a clear 
expression of wisdom and to teach us how to be wise in their use. 

Beginning with demonstration, we find that it is in association 
with peace, for all demonstration produces a concept of peace, 
and then comes the association of infallibility; this expresses the 
permanent good of the law, which is unassailable. So wisdom 
gives to its possessor a demonstrable power of peace through in- 
fallible law. 

Sagacity is in association with unity. Surely it is wisdom to be 
in perfect harmony with the Christ-law, for then will come the 
association of control which completes the realization of sagacity 
in unity and control. 

Knowldge is in association with freedom and power. There 
is no doubt that knowledge is that power of truth which makes 
us free from mortal imaginations, and it was even given as a fact 
by our Saviour. 

Out of infinite presence comes the understanding of demon- 
stration, the fact of those things which are made perfect and 
finished. 

Out of presence and demonstration we are led into being saga- 
cious, it is our way of gaining a perception of truth through its 
demonstrations. 

Out of demonstration and sagacity come knowledge as that 
perfect state of understanding which constitutes our being. 

This completes the nine points of the Star and expresses every 
phase of Mind, still not in its infinite development, for many 
circles of Mind's expanded meaning can yet be accomplished. 

Out of immutable existence comes the concept of completion. 

Out of existence and completion comes the concept of proof. 



268 The Christ-Law 

Out of complete proof comes manifestation as certain under- 
standing. 

Out of proof manifested do we receive the consciousness of 
attainment. 

Out of manifest attainment comes perspicuity as a wise con- 
science. 

Out of attained perspicuity comes sageness. 

Out of sageness and perspicuity we receive true information. 

Out of sage information comes erudition as ability in learning. 

Out of information and erudition comes comprehension as an 
ability to understand the law in all of its phases of expression. 

This completes the nine points of the Star as far as the fourth 
circle of Mind's developed meaning, according to the life-action, 
love-substance, truth-perfection interpretation. 

It is to be hoped that the reader will not stop here with the 
fourth circle, but pursue the enlightenment of further circles, 
for the fifth and sixth are quite possible to nil out and will give 
a very complete list of perfect states of spiritual consciousness. 

Bible Records Relating to the Law of Wisdom. 
The Ninth Commandment. 

In Exodus 20:2, 16, we read (Because) "I am the Lord thy 
God which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of 
the house of bondage." Therefore — 

"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." 

Because we have come into contact with the true testimony 
of Spirit to our spirit, and witnessed its final and satisfying 
state of being, then we shall have overcome the condemnation of 
sense disapproval. 

We shall not testify of evil in our neighbor, because we shall 
see him in his spiritual perfection and realize that to testify 
falsely is our sin, which is sure to reap its reward of correction 
because of the power of truth. 

We shall have gained wisdom as the love of life, and through it 
come into touch with our Saviour's presence. While abiding 
within the realm of wisdom we shall not be able to perceive the 
destructive sense testimony of the things of outer darkness, and 
we shall not use these false appearances against our neighbor. 



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The tenth commandment is included within the eighth, for 
when we overcome our desire to steal and learn that we already 
have as our rightful possession all things from a loving Father 
which are just as good as our neighbor's, then there will be noth- 
ing to steal or covet, for we shall have lost this mortal concept. 

The Ninth Beatitude. 

In Matt. 5:11, 12, we read the last beatitude, which refers to 
this last point of the Star of Wisdom. 

. "Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you, 
and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake:" 

"Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in 
heaven, for so persecuted they the prophets which were before 
you." 

To be reviled by mortals and persecuted through their domi- 
nating will to do evil, because you possess that which they do not, 
is something to be glad about, for the reward is ours. Mortals 
who take the standard of destructive material appearance as a 
guide cannot acknowledge a power of Spirit truthfully, for they 
do not sense such a thing and judge you in error because of it. 
Because we have learned to separate between the mortal sense 
expression and the spiritual soul expression and been blessed 
therein we are hated by those who have not. But let us rejoice 
in that we have overcome the sense testimony of evil. 

We must stand firm in the manifestation of the Christ-truth, for 
therein we are blessed alone, therein shall we receive our reward 
of harmony as the presence of the kingdom of heaven. 

The Lord's Prayer. 

In Matt. 6:13, we read the last section of the Lord's Prayer, 
which is a summing up of the whole law in the point of wisdom. 
It is a rehearsal of the full reward which is sure to come to those 
who serve the Christ and abide within his perfection. 

"For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for- 
ever." 

For thine is the kingdom of love in Holiness ; and the power of 
truth in Principle; and the glory of life in Being. 



270 The Christ-Law 

This last point of the Star in wisdom as the love of life is the 
finishing touch to the law, for it is the final attainment in coming 
before him in worship; it includes every right and perfect state 
of spiritual holiness and being, expressed through principle. 

The Sermon on the Mount. 

In Matt. 7:21-29, we read that which our Saviour and Mas- 
ter had to say about the law in wisdom. 

In wisdom we are to gain a state of final perfection through 
the revelations of the law of righteousness. Jesus states that 
which is required to complete our understanding, for he says Not 
everyone who says unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the king- 
dom of heaven, but hje that doeth the law of righteousness as 
my Father's will of good. A sensation or sense appearance of 
the law will not answer, it must be a soul experience spiritually 
expressed, then only shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven 
which is within. It must be love within the heart as an honest 
state of spiritual expression. 

Then Jesus tells us plainly of that which will happen, for he 
says that some people will strive to justify themselves before 
him in self defense of the mortal lives of deceit and fury which 
they have lived. A selfish interpretation of the bible records 
which has been twisted to fit their own desires and lusts will not 
pass before the perfect Christ. 

Little do these people realize that the ever-present Christ as 
spiritual law and power already knows every soul which has 
come into its being and likeness through the expression of his 
right ideas as perfect states of being or consciousness. These 
have demonstrated his likeness and are known by him, but the 
erring mortal who has lived in the mortal consciousness and 
through deceit, hypnotism and craft claimed to have followed 
the law and done the works of the law in healing and reforma- 
tion shall be called to account by our Saviour. He shall say unto 
them, depart from me, ye workers of iniquity who abide in the 
false interpretations of the evil deceiving sense, for I, living in 
the spiritual realm of the soul expressions of honest and true 
love, never knew you therein. 



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Depart from me, ye who practice craft through material means, 
by mesmerism, charms and false principles, working the works 
of sense appearances which are opposed to the Christ-law of 
righteousness, for I never knew you. To know and express the 
law of life, love, truth, is our one way to salvation. 

In verse 24, Jesus sums up the whole situation and the result 
of following or not following the one law of righteousness. He 
likens anyone who has heard the testimony of this law, that is 
understood it in the heart and lived under its influence and within 
its protection, to a man who built his house of conscience in this 
way, that is, upon this rock of the Christ-law. For when the 
rains and floods of evil in this world's experiences come upon him 
they cannot prevail against the law of the Christ within this 
man's conscience, for it is fortified in wisdom. 

Again Jesus speaks to the people and says that everyone who 
shall hear the law and not abide within its influence and under 
its protection shall be likened unto a man who built his house of 
conscience upon the shifting sands of mortal sense appearance, 
abiding by the sense experiences of material things here in this 
world, none of which can be trusted implicitly. And when the 
rains and floods of mortal errors came upon him he could not 
withstand them because he had no power of understanding. 

To have nothing but the substance of belief behind our living 
will be a terrible realization at the last, for it will mean that 
we have not earned, neither gained, eternal existence ; we will 
be found not worthy to sit with our Saviour in his kingdom of 
love and good. 

To trust to luck and take a chance of getting an understanding 
of the principle of mathematics without labor within its perfect 
law in an honest effort and persistent striving therefor is on a 
par with our right to possess the kingdom of heaven and its won- 
der and glory without honestly having earned it. And our Mas- 
ter says that in that great day we shall all be measured by that 
same standard of holiness, and to those who do not possess it 
he will say, "Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity, for I never 
knew you." 



MAftlS 1913 



